Lunch Plenary
Panel: Nuclear Power in the US: Next Steps?
Friday, November 61:00 – 2:45
Speakers
About This Session
With national attention on nuclear energy at a high point, this panel brings together leaders from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the Nuclear Energy Institute, Westinghouse Nuclear, CORE Power, and GE Vernova to examine what actually happens next. The conversation gets specific about timelines, regulatory pathways, and what it will realistically take to bring nuclear capacity into the near-term resource mix at meaningful scale.
Key Questions Explored
- What needs to happen in the next three years for the nuclear renaissance to become a reliability story rather than a policy aspiration?
- Where are the real bottlenecks in new nuclear development: financing, permitting, workforce, or public trust?
- How do small modular reactors change the calculus on nuclear deployment, and on what timeline?
- What does New York’s existing nuclear fleet tell us about the challenges and opportunities ahead?
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