All Programs

Home/All Programs

Report – Regulating Change and Changing Regulation: Past and Present Efforts to Reform the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

This EIRP report examines five decades of efforts to reform the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, from Three Mile Island to today’s ADVANCE Act and Executive Order 14300. Drawing lessons from that history, authors Ben Longstreth, Paul J. Saunders, Samuel Thernstrom, and Jackie Toth recommend targeted reforms to speed reactor licensing without undermining public confidence or nuclear safety.

Participants in the November 20, 2025 workshop on U.S.-South Korea civil nuclear cooperation.

Workshop – Opportunities and Challenges in U.S.-South Korea Civil Nuclear Cooperation

As the Trump administration works to accelerate domestic deployment of nuclear energy, EIRP and the Korea Atomic Industrial Forum convened an off-the-record discussion to assess opportunities and challenges for U.S.-South Korea cooperation in the United States and in third countries. KAIF represents about five hundred firms in South Korea’s nuclear sector. EIRP Senior Advisor Paul Saunders moderated the session, which took place in Washington on November 20, 2025.

How America Can Achieve Nuclear Energy Dominance

The Working Group on Nuclear Energy Dominance, co-sponsored by EIRP and the Center for the National Interest, proposes a slate of new policies to support the Trump administration’s goals to expand nuclear energy in the United States as well as U.S. nuclear energy exports.

Panel Discussion – Competition and Cooperation in Energy, Technology, and Critical Minerals in the Indo-Pacific Region

The collision between geopolitics, energy, and technology may be a defining aspect of the international system in the 2020s. Even as the United States and its allies work to diversify their supply chains to avoid over-dependence on geopolitical competitors, they are in simultaneous cooperation and competition with one another. The session explored opportunities for deeper cooperation with U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific region in energy and energy-related technologies, including electric vehicles and batteries, as well as underlying tensions.

Video Panel – China’s EV Battery Dominance

On May 29, 2024, Energy Innovation Reform Project sponsored an online discussion of China’s dominant position in electric vehicle battery markets and opportunities for U.S.-South Korea cooperation. EIRP senior advisor Paul Saunders moderated the session, which included remarks by the University of Georgia’s David Gattie and Hanyang University’s Younkyoo Kim. Each of the speakers has contributed working papers to EIRP’s U.S.-Korea Energy Series.

Real Clear Energy: Holmstead and Thernstrom Doubt Clean Air Act’s Climate Power

In Real Clear Energy, Bracewell attorney Jeff Holmstead, a former assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Air and Radiation Office from 2001 to 2005, and EIRP CEO Samuel Thernstrom argue that “the Clean Air Act’s authority over power plant greenhouse gas emissions is weak, contested, and highly inefficient” and that a legislated federal clean energy standard would be more lasting and effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions than continuing efforts at regulation. And, they suggest, if a new law allowed states to choose between a CES or existing policies, it could win political support.