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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.

EIRP’s Paul Saunders Assesses Russia’s Global Energy Role in The Washington Times

In The Washington Times, EIRP Senior Advisor Paul Saunders, who is also President of the Center for the National Interest, argues that after decades of concern over Europe’s energy dependence on Russia, Washington would do well to turn its attention to Moscow’s new energy partners, including not only its oil and gas customers, but also the governments seeking Russian help to develop nuclear energy and to develop energy-related mining projects.

Video: Restoring America’s Nuclear Energy Leadership and Exports

On April 2, 2024, EIRP and the Center for the National Interest co-sponsored a panel discussion of EIRP’s new report, Restoring America’s Nuclear Energy Leadership and Exports. Speakers included Assistant Secretary of Energy Kathryn Huff, former Centrus Energy CEO Daniel Poneman, and leading experts on U.S. nuclear energy and nonproliferation policy.

Restoring America’s Nuclear Energy Leadership and Exports

In this EIRP policy report, EIRP Senior Advisor Paul Saunders argues that today’s U.S. nuclear energy policies–accumulated over decades, from the beginning of the nuclear age–have not kept up with realities. To restore U.S. nuclear energy leadership and exports, the United States should modernize its approach to civil nuclear cooperation to account for changing geopolitics, technology, markets, and priorities. The report calls for new policies to innovate, accelerate, facilitate, and cooperate.