The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has made significant progress in recent years to update the regulations to adapt to the incoming wave of new reactor designs from small modular reactors and microreactors to advanced reactor designs. There are new licensing frameworks being developed to enable the licensing of new reactors to meet demand needs

As the US Government moves to support nuclear fission and fusion strongly, new public-private partnerships agreements have been made that reflect performance-based, fixed-price milestone contracts. Initially demonstrated with significant success in the space industry between NASA and SpaceX, these milestones based contracts can enable significant advancements in nuclear reactor demonstration projects as well as nuclear

Nuclear energy has gained unprecedented international focus. The conversation around nuclear has changed fundamentally towards finding pathways to enable nuclear. Previously, conversations were still centered around whether nuclear would be the right technology choice for the energy needs of the future, but it has largely been accepted now that nuclear will be a significant key