Think and do the extraordinary

I had the pleasure of speaking at ANS's Utility Working Conference last month and would like to share my thoughts with our wider membership.

Electrification is the foundation of modern society. The nuclear enterprise has and must continue to play a crucial role in the era in which we find ourselves-the energy transition era. We have made important gains in post-COVID times, with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Inflation Reduction Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and more recently the ADVANCE Act of 2024-all aimed at, broadly speaking, enhancing (nuclear) industry.

We have also seen greater public support for nuclear power. The National Nuclear Energy Public Opinion Survey has been undertaken every year for the last four decades. It has demonstrated for the last three years that three-fourths of respondents strongly or somewhat favor the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity within the United States.

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