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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference 2024 (PBNC)
Gary Wolski served in the U.S. Navy’s nuclear power program, supported the U.S. Department of Energy’s mission at Hanford in nuclear power operations and maintenance engineering, and was a contractor supporting civil nuclear power plant outages. For the last twenty-eight years, he has been with Curtiss-Wright, working in the Nuclear Division in positions of increasing levels of responsibility in Sales, Marketing and Management. Gary is currently a Vice President in Curtiss-Wright’s Nuclear Division with responsibilities to grow Curtiss-Wright’s nuclear business.
Mr. Wolski has served six charters on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Civil Nuclear Trade Advisory Committee (CINTAC) where he previously served as Chair, Vice Chair, and Subcommittee Chair twice. He currently serves as Chair of the Nuclear Energy Institute’s (NEI) Supplier Advisory Committee and is a past chair of NEI’s Trade Advocacy Subcommittee.
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