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This report summarizes the efforts of NIA, and more than 100 other participants, to establish a collective understanding of the gaps that exist between the real and anticipated costs and capabilities of advanced nuclear energy technologies and the characterization of those costs and capabilities in prominent energy system modeling efforts; and to outline collectively a set of actions that could be taken by the energy modeling community and the federal government to help close those gaps. The recommendations in the report call for the establishment of an advanced nuclear energy cost and performance database that will be developed, housed, and overseen by a Department of Energy office or national laboratory with expertise in advanced nuclear energy technologies. Moreover, the recommendations call for energy system modelers to update their default system model assumptions to reflect ranges based on advanced nuclear reactor developer survey results and the cost and performance parameters published in recent studies.

This report provides recommendations on how the Department of Energy (DOE) can be more effective in helping to commercialize advanced nuclear energy technologies, and how it can catalyze the private-public partnership that is needed to reach full-scale commercialization.

To read the executive summary, click here: Executive Summary, Transforming the U.S. Department of Energy: Paving the Way to Commercialize Advanced Nuclear Energy

To view a list of the recommendations made in this report, click here: List of Recommendations for the NIA Report on Transforming the U.S. DOE

This fact sheet summarizes the recommendations presented in NIA's report, titled "Transforming the U.S. Department of Energy: Paving the Way to Commercialize Advanced Nuclear Energy", to help promote their implementation and communicates the actions DOE should take to accelerate the commercialization of advanced nuclear energy.

This fact sheet contains the executive summary found within this report, "Transforming the U.S. Department of Energy: Paving the Way to Commercialize Advanced Nuclear Energy".

This is a recording of the Nuclear Innovation Alliance's virtual event for the publication of NIA's new report, " Transforming the U.S. Department of Energy: Paving the Way to Commercialize Advanced Nuclear Energy". This report, which can be found here on NIA's website, provides recommendations on how the Department of Energy (DOE) can be more effective in helping to commercialize advanced nuclear energy technologies, and how it can catalyze the private-public partnership that is needed to reach full-scale commercialization.

During this event, Executive Director Judi Greenwald and Nuclear Innovation Analyst Erik Cothron present what is in this report, and a special panel of guests give their thoughts. This special panel includes:

Dr. Kathryn Huff, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy; Daniel Dziadon, Professional Staff Member, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, & Technology; Rory Stanley, Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Scott A. Kopple, Senior Director, Government Relations, BWX Technologies, Inc.; David M. Hart, Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University and senior fellow at the Center for Clean Energy Innovation at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation.

NIA's public comment to DOE in response to their request for information regarding categorical exclusions. Docket ID DOE_FRDOC_00014513

Public comment submitted by the Nuclear Innovation Alliance on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's draft NUREG-2263, Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Construction Permit for the Kairos Hermes Test Reactor.

This NIA fact sheet gives an overview of Virginia's plans to establish a Nuclear Innovation Hub in southwest Virginia and discusses the Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium.

This NIA Fact Sheet highlights the deployment timeline of selected advanced reactors projects supported by federal partnerships in the United States and expected advanced reactor engagement with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in FY2023.