Rod Adams opines that Dr. Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor and Associate Provost for International Activities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), published a thought- and discussion-provoking piece titled A Roadmap for U.S. Nuclear Energy Innovation in the Winter 2016 edition of Issues in Science and Technology, the quarterly policy journal of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, the University of Texas at Dallas, and Arizona State University.
The Lester piece is both hopeful and challenging. He foresees the possibility of large contributions to our future energy supply from emission free nuclear energy, but he also notes the very real possibility that the U.S. will be a laggard instead of a leader in the field. Here is a paragraph that summarizes possibilities, his recommendations and the challenges that he sees in the future of U.S. nuclear energy developments....
This nuclear agenda is ambitious, but attainable. It draws on the deep strengths of the U.S. economy in entrepreneurial risk-taking, as well as on a series of remarkable advances in other scientific fields that can now be applied to the traditionally insular and conservative nuclear industry. It also draws on the still-formidable capabilities of the national nuclear research and security complex. But implementing this innovation agenda will require a new political coalition capable of neutralizing the longstanding opposition of people for whom the biggest dragons to be slain are nuclear energy or the federal government itself. A failure to act will undermine U.S. climate goals. It will also compromise important national security objectives. And it will further disconnect the U.S. industry from a global nuclear marketplace that is likely to be worth many hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming decades.
Read on, Adams has something worthwhile to share ....
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