ATOMICALLY SPEAKING | Reliability Is National Security: A Conversation with Deputy Secretary of Energy James P. Danly
In this episode, NENSC Co-Chair Daniel Poneman sits down with James P. Danly — Deputy Secretary of Energy, former FERC Commissioner, and Army veteran — for a conversation on why a reliable grid is a national security asset and what it will take to rebuild American nuclear capability from the ground up.
Danly discusses how DOE is implementing the nuclear executive orders, the role of the Reactor Pilot Program in moving first-of-a-kind reactors from paper to operation, why restoring domestic uranium enrichment matters for everything from commercial markets to naval fuel and the deterrent, and how the United States can become the preferred nuclear partner for countries choosing between American technology and offers from Russia and China. It's a direct look at the fuel cycle, the National Labs, and the concrete results that will tell us America has regained its nuclear leadership.