In November 2018, Kyung Hee University located in Seoul, the Global America Business Institute (GABI) based in Washington, D.C., and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) headquartered in New York convened a private meeting to discuss findings from technical and policy experts related to a possible DPRK denuclearization roadmap. One year later, the three entities will host
From Oct 29 to 30 2019, GABI president Florence Lowe Lee attends a nuclear job fair in Seoul South Korea. President Lee made opening remarks about this event.
Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has added nuclear energy technologies to their portfolio of projects to support the broader mission of ensuring the U.S. technological lead in energy and bolstering U.S. economic and energy security. One of the major challenge areas for the nuclear industry is in operation and maintenance (O&M), as this represents a
August 26-29, 2019, GABI organized high-level private workshop among a multinational group of experts (US-Korea-Japan-Canada) to discuss the development of innovative institutional models and frameworks to facilitate the global deployment of small modular/advanced reactors, initially from the perspectives of prospective vendor countries. This meeting built upon GABI¡¯s history and experience with its trilateral nuclear energy
Increasing penetrations of ever affordable renewable energy, while helpful in mitigating carbon and other atmospheric emissions, are effecting growing challenges related to grid management, power reliability, and dispatchability. With recent advances in control and communications networks, reactor designs, and carbon capture, the integration of various low-carbon energy generation technologies has the potential to concurrently achieve
Russia and China are quickly and aggressively marketing their civil nuclear technologies throughout the world. For emerging nuclear markets, such as in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, the comprehensive nature of Russian and Chinese civil nuclear packages—which includes financing, equity, operations, training, long-term support, fuel cycle services, and other side benefits—is very appealing. The
There has been widespread interest in the development of civil nuclear programs in Africa. Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa in particular, has never been viewed as a robust market for nuclear power, at least partly because conventional plants are perceived as too costly and inflexible to be practical. However, with the emergence of SMRs and advanced
Although the Moon Jae-In administration initially announced a long-term phase out of nuclear energy in South Korea, in reality, the government appears to be instead working towards reducing the proportion of nuclear in the national energy mix and continues to support exports of the country’s civil nuclear technology. South Korea’s civil nuclear capabilities can also
