President Joe Biden’s (D) administration on Wednesday hosted what it called a White House Summit on Domestic Nuclear Deployment and announced it would create a federal working group to promote domestic nuclear technology.
The closed-door summit included attendees from government and industry. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission posted a photo from the summit on the website X. Also at the summit, Duke Energy, Charlotte, N.C., announced a new energy pricing scheme intended to encourage the purchasing of nuclear power, according to a press release from the company.
The working group, meanwhile, will be an all-federal, joint White House-Department of Energy group, according to an administration press release.
The White House’s release and fact sheet did not mention radioactive waste and the ongoing legal stalemate about construction of permanent or temporary repositories in which to consolidate spent fuel from the current fleet of nuclear power plants and future advanced reactors.