US outlines strategy to support domestic nuclear energy sector

The U.S. Department of Energy recently released a roadmap for rebuilding the country’s nuclear energy sector, including commitments to bolster domestic production of uranium, increase its enrichment as a fuel source and expand the export market for nuclear technologies. U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette unveiled the strategy on April 23. The report: Strategy to Restore American Nuclear Energy Leadership, was written by the government’s Nuclear Fuel Working Group (NFWG) – a task force put together by U.S. President Donald Trump last July. The strategy paper builds on previous efforts by the Trump administration to help uranium miners in the U.S. and the broader nuclear energy sector as a whole – both of which have been struggling in the last few years. “The decline of the U.S. industrial base in the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle over the past few decades has threatened our national interest and national security,” Brouillette said when he released the strategy report. “The Trump Administration is committed to regaining our competitive global position as the world leader in nuclear energy.”