Although combating climate change and reducing carbon emissions have recently been viewed as the responsibility of the international community and national governments, the critical role of the private sector in global carbon mitigation has been underappreciated. Private companies and investment entities, including many in the fossil fuel industry, are becoming more environmentally responsible as they
July 12-15, 2016 Idaho National Laboratory Boise, Idaho, United States After a few-year hiatus, the Trilateral Nuclear Energy Dialogue resumed in Boise, Idaho. Throughout the course of the dialogue, participants sat in closed-door workshop sessions, listened to presentations and comments made during DOE's Consent-Based Siting Public Meeting in Boise, and visited sites and facilities within
GABI President Ms. Florence Lowe-Lee participated in "Environment and Environmentalism in East Asia," a conference hosted by the Taiwan Studies program at the University of Alberta at the Banff Centre from June 3-7, 2016. The conference brought together scholars, environmental NGO representatives, and journalists "to consider the challenges of environmental protection and sustainable development in
June 28, 2016 Although nuclear power generates about 20% of U.S. electricity and almost two-thirds of the country's carbon-free electricity, much of the domestic fleet is under threat of premature closure because current policies and market structures do not adequately value the myriad benefits of nuclear in producing clean, reliable, and affordable energy. Deregulated electricity
GABI President was invited to attend the 66th UN DPI-NGO Conference in the city of Gyeongju, Korea from May 30-June 1, 2016. The conference title was "Education for Global Citizenship: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Together." The purpose of the conference was to empower learners to assume active roles to face and resolve global challenges
Developing a Regulatory Framework to Facilitate Nuclear Energy Innovation May 19, 2016 In recent years, numerous companies and entities seeking to develop and commercialize advanced nuclear power technologies have emerged in the United States. These technologies, which differ significantly from the conventional light water reactors (LWRs) currently deployed at power plants throughout the country, have
Korea-Montana Energy Symposium May 10, 2016 In partnership with the Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, GABI organized a major symposium at the Energy Research Institute at Montana State University (MSU) to discuss issues of international cooperation in clean energy and energy more broadly. The symposium featured a
Although much of the current attention on small modular reactors (SMRs) in the U.S. is focused on light water reactor (LWR) technologies, non-light water based SMR designs are currently being developed that may improve upon the inherent deployability, operability, and passive safety characteristics of LWR SMRs. Moreover, non-light water SMRs may have the added benefits
