{"id":5758,"date":"2019-06-20T08:21:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2023-11-09T13:17:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:17:32","slug":"what-is-nela-and-why-it-is-worth-closely-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/our-take\/what-is-nela-and-why-it-is-worth-closely-tracking\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is NELA and Why It Is Worth Closely Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest whiteboard video, ClearPath Executive Director Rich Powell walks through the main details of the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act (NELA) and why it is worth closely tracking. NELA is a bipartisan and broad framework to spur advanced nuclear technologies led by Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.)\u00a0in the Senate, and Reps. Elaine Luria (D-VA), Denver Riggleman (R-VA), Connor Lamb (D-PA), Rob Wittman (R-VA) in the House. NELA establishes specific goals to align federal, lab and private-sector efforts; developing a 10-year strategic plan that supports advanced nuclear R&amp;D goals; providing initial domestic supplies of the fuel needed for many advanced reactor designs; a reliable testing ground for advanced fuels and materials; and nuclear engineering scholarships to maintain a robust pipeline of nuclear engineering talent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container video-16x9\"><iframe title=\"Updated - ClearPath's Rich Powell: What is NELA and why it is worth closely tracking\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sx9qRgdLdJE?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;theme=light&amp;color=white&amp;rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;iv_load_policy=3\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>View more of\u00a0<a href=\"\/our-take\">Our Take<\/a>\u00a0and let us\u00a0know what you think at <a href=\"mailto:jaylistens@saperemarketing.com\">jaylistens@saperemarketing.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this whiteboard video, ClearPath Executive Director Rich Powell explains the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act (NELA) and why it is worth closely tracking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":5762,"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":[18,33],"class_list":["post-5758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-take","tag-nuclear","tag-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758","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=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saperemarketing.com\/clearpath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}