To that end, the Breakthrough report points out that it is crucial for policymakers «to identify the technologies most amenable to commercialization and deployment,» and to «support a broad commitment to nuclear innovation aimed at expanding, rather than restricting, technological options.» (zdnet.com)
This affects nuclear innovation in other countries as well, since the NRC remains, despite its many critics, the global gold standard for thorough regulation of nuclear energy. (foreignpolicy.com)
Long before they had achieved their goal of shutting down existing plants, anti-nuclear activists avidly sought to cut funding for nuclear innovation. (environmentalprogress.org)