“Climate scientists tell us that the world must drastically cut its fossil fuel use in the next 30 years to stave off a potentially catastrophic tipping point for the planet. Confronting this challenge is a moral issue, but it’s also a math problem—and a big part of the solution has to be nuclear power.”
—Joshua S. Goldstein and Staffan A. Qvist,
in a 2019 WSJ essay
“My Nuclear Energy Leadership Act, which is cosponsored by Senator Booker and 16 additional Senators, is designed to reposition the United States as the undisputed world leader in advanced nuclear technology.”
—Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, Senate Committee
on Energy & Natural Resources
“Providing for a nuclear energy option, both nationally and globally, to provide clean, dispatchable baseload and scalable power in a complex and dynamic power grid environment is a critical goal.”
—Breakthrough Energy
“Safer nuclear reactors are on the way: resilient fuels and innovative reactors could enable a resurgence of nuclear power.”
—Mark Fischetti, in Scientific American
“Without an important contribution from nuclear power, the global energy transition will be that much harder.”
—Dr. Fatih Birol, International Energy Agency,
as quoted in Morning Star article.
Funders should be “helping to finish off the research and development on fourth-generation reactors . . .”
—Larry Kramer, Hewlett Foundation
“The imperative of climate change means we must look at options to continue to build nuclear power . . . .”
—John Woolard, Sr. Energy Fellow,
World Resources Institute
“Taking any option to reduce carbon emissions off the table, including nuclear power, is morally reprehensible.”
—Varun Sivaram, ReNewPower
“I do not believe that there is a solution for our 2050 goals and aspirations that does not involve major breakthroughs in new technologies.”
—Dr. Ernest J. Moniz, President & CEO, Energy Futures Initiative
U.S. Secretary of Energy, Obama Administration
“U.S. domestic nuclear capacity has the potential to scale from ~100 GW in 2023 to ~300 GW by 2050. Every scenario of system decarbonization modeling suggests that we will need additional clean firm capacity to reach net-zero; nuclear power needs to be viable at scale..”
—Jigar Shah, Director US DOE,
Loan Program Office
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