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The Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA) and Partnership for Global Security (PGS) held a webinar event to release their new joint strategy "U.S. Advanced Nuclear Energy Strategy: for Domestic Prosperity Climate Protection, National Security, and Global Leadership." Based on stakeholder engagement, the strategy provides a roadmap for the United States to become a global leader in advanced nuclear energy. The webinar was moderated by Dean Scott of Bloomberg and hosted by NIA's Executive Director Judi Greenwald and PGS' President Ken Luongo. Judi and Ken were joined by Niko McMurray of ClearPath, Jessica Lovering of Good Energy Collective, and Jennifer Gordon of Atlantic Council. A copy of the report can be found here: Report

Nuclear Innovation Alliance and Partnership for Global Security published a joint strategy to establish American leadership in advanced nuclear energy. This Executive Summary provides a high-level overview of the strategy.

NIA's joint public comment, along with Third Way, ClearPath, Bipartisan Policy Center, and Nuclear Matters, to NRC on the development of their strategic plan for fiscal year 2022 through 2026. (Comment ID: NRC-2020-0194-0004)

NIA's public comment to NRC's proposed amendments to its regulations regarding new alternative emergency preparedness requirements for small modular reactors and other new technologies. (Comment ID:  NRC-2015-0225-0287)

In recent decades, the nuclear industry has become increasingly global, with companies and technologies flowing across borders. An early provision in nuclear law limits the ability of US allies to invest in nuclear innovation in the US. Repealing that provision, or allowing an exception for close allies, can unlock financing and other collaborations to enable the US nuclear sector to remain globally competitive.

Nuclear power plays a critical role in providing zero-carbon power for both the United States and South Korea. This report explores the future role of nuclear power in decarbonizing both countries, with a focus on policy lessons and potential areas of collaboration.

This report identifies some of the challenges that have been apparent in NEPA reviews of commercial nuclear energy projects. It makes several policy and operational recommendations that would support more efficient review for first-of-a-kind advanced nuclear demonstration projects while still protecting the environment. 

This report provides guidance on how advanced reactor vendors can define interface requirements between portions of a plant design when using the “standard design approval” process to seek Nuclear Regulatory Commission review of a major portion of their design. This facilitates a modular and staged approach to licensing that can be useful for some advanced nuclear programs. This report builds on prior NIA work to identify the opportunity associated with the standard design approval process and to provide guidance on how to exercise it.

NASA's commercial development programs have helped nurture a U.S. commercial launch industry. This report evaluates the successes of NASA's COTS program to identify potential lessons for commercializing the advanced nuclear industry. It proposes that DOE establish a similar program to enable federal procurement to drive commercialization.

In April 2019, NIA's Executive Director, Dr. Ashley Finan, testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for its "Hearing on U.S. Nuclear Energy and S. 903, the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act"