NEI Nuclear Notes

Jim Asselstine The following is a guest post submitted by Scott Peterson, NEI's senior vice president of communications . SINGAPORE-- Jim Asselstine has an unparalleled pedigree to assess the nuclear energy industry. He has analyzed the industry for the past 23 years at Lehman Brothers and Barclays , was a Nuclear Regulatory Commission commissioner and punched his policy credential as a congressional staffer. “My own personal view is that we should try to keep nuclear power, as the only zero-carbon, large-scale baseload generating source at about its current level of 19 or 20 percent of U.S. [electric] generation,” Asselstine said during a clear-eyed assessment of America’s nuclear energy industry. He was speaking at the World Nuclear Fuel Conference , a global symposium in Singapore sponsored by the Nuclear Energy Institute and World Nuclear Association . Assuming modest electricity demand growth and with the closure of existing reactors after 60 years of production,...