Investable Nuclear Energy

Please join the Environmental and Energy Law program for Investable Nuclear Energy: Building a Secure, Safe, Environmentally and Socially Just, and Investable Nuclear Energy Fuel Supply Chain for the Future. Specific times and additional speakers forthcoming. 

The objective of this interactive conference is to consider challenges and build strategies for better integration of environmental and social justice measures, as framed by the investment community, with critical but more traditional focus areas of energy security and safety. The conference emphasis is on the supply chain, or front-end, of the nuclear energy fuel cycle as it exists presently and as will be required for advanced technologies. The conference concludes with a focus on developing fact-based communications, among the industry, regulators, investors, students (the future work-force), and the public, to facilitate development of nuclear energy as a highly-valued 21^st century resource.

The conference will be held virtually in four half-day sessions, each of which builds on the prior day’s work. Specific times and speakers forthcoming. Presentations will be via Zoom Webinar. Networking periods, discussions, and workshops will be conducted via Zoom meetings, some with breakout rooms.

Agenda: 

Day One: Assessing the Past and Present: The Pathway to ESG

The Day 1 program serves to establish a basic understanding of the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle including mining techniques and the steps required to transform ore to fuel. Particular attention is paid to the history of fuel production in the U.S., criticisms raised with respect to past practices, and an introduction to the regulations and remedial measures, as they exist today; the sufficiency and efficacy of those efforts; and the risks participants in the sector need to assess and address. 

Day Two: Looking Forward 

Day 2 will address the potential landscape for the future of nuclear energy both in the U.S. and internationally together with future supply chain needs and possibilities.

Day Three: Where to next?

Day 3 is primarily devoted to identifying challenges and solutions to fulfilling the promise of a nuclear power industry that is attractive to investors and holds the public’s trust through securing a secure, safe, and environmentally and socially just supply chain. 

Day Four: Positive Discourse

Day 4 will be devoted to the challenge of creating fact-based positive discourse between and among executives of vendor and operator companies, regulators, the public, and students, that is needed to move forward.

See full agenda here.