Advanced Nuclear Energy

Inside Philanthropy Quotes EIRP CEO Nuclear Policy Funding

Inside Philanthropy Quotes EIRP CEO Nuclear Policy Funding

Inside Philanthropy quotes EIRP Samuel Thernstrom in a major article on foundations funding nuclear work. Thernstrom encourages foundations funding nuclear energy policy research to take a technologically neutral approach.

Saunders urges energy innovation to sustain U.S. global leadership

Writing for the prominent foreign policy magazine The National Interest, EIRP President Paul J. Saunders argues that energy innovation can contribute importantly to U.S. economic competitiveness and to America’s global leadership, especially in an era of growing great power competition with China.

Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Weapons

On October 17, 2017, EIRP and the Center for the National Interest organized a panel discussion of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century.

Thernstrom Discusses Advanced Nuclear Study

Executive director Samuel Thernstrom talked to R & D Magazine reporter Kenny Walter about a 2017 EIRP study of the costs of advanced nuclear power plants in an in-depth interview.

A Cost Assessment of Advanced Nuclear Power

On July 25, 2017, the Nuclear Energy Institute organized a panel discussion to review findings of an EIRP report assessing the costs of advanced nuclear power plants. EIRP prepared the report in cooperation with the Energy Options Network.

What Will Advanced Nuclear Power Plants Cost?

EIRP worked with the Energy Options Network to survey eight leading advanced nuclear power companies about their projected capital costs, operating costs, and electricity costs for advanced nuclear energy. What we found can help both policymakers and investors assessing the promise of advanced reactor designs.