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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
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Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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NRC’s David Wright visits the Hill and more NRC news
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is in the spotlight today for three very different reasons. First, NRC Chair David Wright was on Capitol Hill yesterday for his renomination hearing in front of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee. Second, the NRC released its updated milestone schedules according to the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) and the executive orders signed by President Trump last month; and third, as reported by Reuters on Tuesday, 28 former NRC officials have condemned the dismissal of Commissioner Hanson earlier this month.
Renomination: EPW Committee chair Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) opened the hearing with a statement praising Wright’s experience and emphasized the urgency of stable leadership at the NRC.
“China is executing a rapid build-out of its nuclear industry,” Capito said. “The demand for clean, baseload power is skyrocketing as we position America to win the AI race.”
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by DESD
Monday, November 16, 2020|1:00–3:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Yoon I. Chang (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
William D. Magwood IV (OECD Nuclear Energy Agency)
Session Organizer:
Jan B. Van Erp (consultant)
Staff Producer:
Daryl Rizzo (American Nuclear Society)
Anthropogenic CO2 is a major cause of climate change, according to scientific consensus. Energy derived from fossil fuels is one of the main sources of atmospheric CO2. This session will address means for reducing energy-related CO2 emissions with emphasis on economic aspects. This panel session will feature the following speakers: 1) Keynote speech by William Magwood, Director General of OECD’s Nuclear Energy Agency : Costs of Decarbonization -- The Role of Nuclear Energy in the Energy Transition ; 2) Luc van den Durpel, President of Nuclear 21 : Energizing Sustainability -- Nuclear’s Unique Contribution; 3) Bill Sacks, co-author with Gregory Meyerson of forthcoming book entitled “Dyseconomies of Scale: Capitalism, the Green New Deal, and Nuclear Power” : Wind and Solar Energy Cannot Scale: The Importance of EROI ; 4) Yoon Chang, Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory : Improving Fuel Recycling Economics to Enable Large-Scale Nuclear Power Deployment
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