Post # 18: The Five Imperatives of Nuclear Energy

This past week I was on the road.  I attended the American Nuclear Society Annual Meeting in San Diego where I presented a paper entitled, "Fluoride Salt High Temperature Reactors (FHRs) and the Five Imperatives of Nuclear Energy".   The Imperatives are the five nuclear energy objectives I believe the U.S. must achieve in order to secure a sustainable energy future for our country.  The Five Imperatives are:

1. Extend the life, improve the performance, and sustain the health and safety of the current commercial nuclear power fleet;
2. Improve the affordability of nuclear energy;
3. Enable the transition away from fossil fuels in the transportation and industrial sectors;
4. Achieve sustainable nuclear fuel cycles;
5. Assure the deployment of nuclear power systems does not result in the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

These Five Imperatives are an integrated framework of outcomes that will assure a long-term supply of safe, secure, affordable, environmentally sustainable nuclear energy for generations to come.  I'll be discussing each of these Five Imperatives in more detail here in future posts.

Cheers,
Sherrell
Colossians 1:17