Potential Pathways and a New Environment for Nuclear Power

This session is part of an ongoing series of conferences that examine the role of nuclear energy as an option to meet urgent climate and energy needs. This program identified a range of potential pathways for growth of nuclear energy given varying sets of assumptions.  Several ways were reviewed in which the environment may have changed for nuclear energy by surveying new reactor technologies available for deployment and the state of public sentiment towards new nuclear builds. Future sessions will examine questions related to scaling-up nuclear energy, options for the back-end of the fuel cycle and the path forward in promoting a secure international expansion of commercial nuclear power.

Alan Beamon, Director, Coal and Electric Power Division Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting, Energy Information Administration
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Tom TerBush, Market Leader, Nuclear Power Sector, Electric Power Research Institute
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Dr. Andrew G. Cook, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Areva NP Inc.
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Ed Cummins, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs and Standardization, Westinghouse Electric Company
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Lee Elder, Senior Vice President, Global Sales, GE-Hitachi

Sam Rodgers, Analyst and Writer, Zogby International
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