FY 2022 Priorities Craig H. Piercy Executive Director/CEO American Nuclear Society

The American nuclear community is grateful to Congress for its continued, bipartisan support for federal investments to sustain the existing nuclear fleet as well as accelerate the near-term development and deployment of new nuclear energy technologies. [...] The new leadership of DOE in this administration must also develop and implement a coherent, strategic vision for how the Department will support and enable the commercialization of U. [...] DOE has made good progress to date with the completion of Critical Decision 1 in FY 2020 and the publication of the draft EIS in FY 2021. [...] In order to broaden the support for the VTR, the DOE should explore the potential for international collaboration and cost-sharing. [...] Through recent congressional direction, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research is to re-establish a research program devoted to the human health effects of low-dose radiation at a funding level of no less than $5 million for FY 2021.