Maria G. Corsnick, president and chief executive officer of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, an industry group that promotes nuclear energy, said the timeline would be much faster “like next year or two.” Stated.
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“We’re talking about the big core here, because it’s in our heads,” she said. “I just say, you are looking at many different opportunities for the nucleus.”
“There will still be a large nuclear role,” she added. However, the design of small modular and microplants “will be announced in the coming years.”
Reactors designed with modular technology can be built much faster and cheaper than traditional ones, Korsnick added.
Experts in the room said they believed that nuclear power would play a major role globally, but some believed it was not the case in the United States.
“If coal is still the king in some parts of the world, such as China and India, and the compound annual growth rate of demand is very high, nuclear power could be a major player. Public Citizen’s Energy Program Director Tyson Slow Come, said.
But “we basically use the same amount of electricity in the United States today that we used more than a decade ago,” he said. “Therefore, it doesn’t make much sense to build nuclear power in some kind of negative demand environment.”
participant: Oksana Markarova, Embassy of Ukraine in the United States, Embassy of Ukraine. Philip Etienne, French Ambassador to the United States, French Embassy. Deputy Secretary of Energy Energy, David Turk; Justin Friedman, US State Department International Security and Non-Proliferation Bureau, Senior Advisor on Commercial Competitiveness of Nuclear Energy. Andrés Gluski, Chief Executive Officer of AES. Maria G. Corsnick, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Atomic Energy Research Institute. Erin Sikorsky, Director of the Center for Climate and Security. Tyson Slocum, Energy Program Director, Public Citizen; Centrus Energy, President and Chief Executive Officer, Daniel B. Poneman; Alan Ann, Senior Resident Fellow, Third Way, Climate and Energy Program. Co-Head of Global Equity, T. Eric L. Veiel, Chief Investment Officer of Rowe Price.