The Future of Nuclear Power

January 13, 2016

On January 13, 2016, EIRP organized a two-part seminar on the Future of Nuclear Power in cooperation with the Center for the National Interest.

Samuel Thernstrom moderated the event’s two panels. First was a discussion of New Nuclear Technologies with Dr. Jacob DeWitte, CEO and Founder of UPower Technologies, Inc. and Dr. Ashley Finian, Senior Project Manager for Energy Innovation at Clean Air Task Force. Following this, John Kotek, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy (in the Obama Administration) and David Garman, a former Under Secretary of Energy in the George W. Bush Administration, presented their perspectives on the Obama Administration’s approach to nuclear power.