AI Is Learning What Nuclear Already Knows: The Future Has to Be Built Somewhere
For years, the “cloud” sounded weightless.
Data floated somewhere above us. The digital economy seemed to exist everywhere and nowhere at once.
But the cloud was never in the sky. It was always on land, plugged into the grid, cooled by water and air, and built in communities.
That reality has become impossible to ignore. The International Energy Agency projects that global electricity use from data centers could more than double by 2030. In the United States, the Electric Power Research Institute estimates that data centers could grow from roughly 4 to 5 percent of national electricity use today to 9 to 17 percent by the end of the decade.
NIA Statement on Eight Nuclear Regulatory Commission Proposed Rules
The following statement may be attributed to Judi Greenwald, President and CEO of the Nuclear Innovation Alliance:
"This has been an extraordinarily busy summer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and its stakeholders. NRC proposed eight rules with comment periods in July and August.
“With these proposed rules now public, the NRC is nearly done with proposing all the rules under the wholesale rule rewrite called for by Executive Order 14300.
One Size Doesn’t Fit All: The Portfolio of Policies Needed for Large and Small Reactors
In January, NIA published the report, Right-Sizing Reactors, to explore the economic trade-offs between large-scale reactors, small modular reactors (SMRs) and microreactors. We concluded that both large and small reactors have pathways to lower costs — but they need different enabling conditions to get there, and it's worth being more specific about the polic
NIA Statement on the Publication of the August 2026 Update to the New Nuclear Energy Guide for State Policymakers
Today, the Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA) released an update to the “New Nuclear Energy Guide for State Policymakers.” This Guide serves as an introduction to new nuclear energy projects and policies for state-level policymakers and stakeholders. It describes new nuclear reactor technology and its benefits, provides an overview of enabling federal policies, and reviews state options to incentivize local development of new reactors.
Nuclear Innovation Alliance Statement on NRC Proposed Rule "Reforming and Modernizing the NRC’s Radiation Protection Framework"
The following statement may be attributed to Judi Greenwald, President and CEO of the Nuclear Innovation Alliance: