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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today named 10 companies that want to get a test reactor critical within the next year using the DOE’s offer to authorize test reactors outside of national laboratories. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
2023 ANS Winter Conference and Expo
Joseph Dominguez is president and CEO of Constellation Energy, overseeing its nuclear, wind, solar, hydroelectric, and natural gas facilities in 19 states as well as its retail and commodities business, providing energy-related products and services to two million customers nationwide. Previously, he was CEO of ComEd, which powers the lives of more than four million residential and business customers in Illinois. Prior to this, Dominguez was executive vice president of governmental and regulatory affairs and public policy at Exelon, where he led federal, state, and regional governmental regulatory, and public-policy strategies. Earlier in his career, he was partner in the law firm of White and Williams. Dominguez is a former assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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