Video: Restoring America’s Nuclear Energy Leadership and Exports

Video: Restoring America’s Nuclear Energy Leadership and Exports

Officials and experts discuss EIRP report on U.S. civil nuclear cooperation

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.

During the event, Assistant Secretary of Energy Dr. Kathryn Huff shared the Biden administration’s efforts to promote U.S. nuclear energy exports and responded to questions. Following her remarks, Daniel Poneman, former Deputy Secretary of Energy and former Chief Executive Officer of Centrus Energy, moderated a panel discussion featuring:

—Paul Saunders, president of the Center for the National Interest, senior advisor at EIRP, and author of EIRP’s new report Restoring America’s Nuclear Energy Leadership and Exports. He was a State Department Senior Advisor in the Bush administration and was president of EIRP from 2019 to early 2024.

—Kenneth Luongo, president of Partnership for Global Security and the Center for a Secure Nuclear Future. He has served as director of the Energy Department’s Office of Arms Control and Nonproliferation and of its North Korea Task Force as well as on the staff of the House Armed Services Committee.

—Stephen Rademaker, Senior Of Counsel at Covington, and a former Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control and for International Security and Nonproliferation. He has extensive Capitol Hill experience as well, including as Senior Counsel and Policy Director for National Security Affairs to then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and as Deputy Staff Director and Chief Council of the House Committee on International Relations.

A recording of the panel discussion is available on YouTube, or you may watch above.

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