{"id":37484,"date":"2017-03-16T16:27:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T20:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/?p=175"},"modified":"2024-02-19T14:35:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T14:35:48","slug":"now-or-never-for-nuclear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/our-take\/now-or-never-for-nuclear\/","title":{"rendered":"Now or Never for Nuclear"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many who are passionate about carbon emission reductions like to place all of their chips on the renewable and efficiency table. I sometimes challenge their anti- or neutral nuclear position, given that it reliably delivers more than 60% of our clean energy. Most of the time, they tell me nuclear is too expensive or it takes too long to build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And they\u2019re not entirely wrong. One of the biggest targets for me and my ClearPath team is slow-walking by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission<\/a> that is making it more expensive or outright preventing the building of more advanced reactors here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not easy to tell a complicated story in 30 seconds, which is what policy debates seem to be timed these days. However, nuclear\u2019s history tells a lengthy story, and a fascinating one at that. And it\u2019s not a history solely about nuclear. It\u2019s about American industry. We used to lead the world in shipbuilding; now we are irrelevant. The supply chain for big ships or nuclear plants takes a long time to perfect, but just a couple of years to whither.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The timeline below shows how we ran up the score before halftime and are now down by two touchdowns to the Russians and Chinese in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n

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What Hail Mary plays will we call?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New energy technologies have always been intertwined with the government whether we like it or not (see my recent recommendations to Energy Secretary Perry<\/a> on how his department can continue to be vital in this area). Will we unleash our entrepreneurs and our advanced nuclear technologies? We will let nuclear go the way of shipbuilding?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The outlook doesn\u2019t look good. But I\u2019m not ready to bet against America…yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View more of Our Take<\/a> and let us know what you think at jaylistens@saperemarketing.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s not easy to tell a complicated story in 30 seconds, which is what policy debates seem to be timed these days. However, nuclear\u2019s history tells a lengthy story, and a fascinating one at that. And it\u2019s not a history solely about nuclear. It\u2019s about American industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":38177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"wds_primary_category":19,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-37484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-take","tag-nuclear"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}