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The regional response centers will further increase the industry’s preparedness for severe challenges, regardless of their causes. This is another example of the industry’s commitment to learn the lessons from the Fukushima accident in Japan and apply those lessons to enhance safety across the U.S. nuclear energy industry.
Tony Pietrangelo
“The U.S. Department of Commerce estimates the global commercial nuclear market at $500 billion to $740 billion over the next decade. U.S. exporters could create or sustain up to 185,000 American jobs if they were able to capture just 25 percent of the global market.”
Richard Myers, Vice President, Policy Development and Supplier Programs, Nuclear Energy Institute
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U.S. Nuclear Energy Industry Developing Regional Response Centers to Deliver Emergency Equipment

Equipment-sharing program at Memphis, Phoenix locations augments industry protocol to pool safety equipment in event of emergenciesWASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 25, 2012—The nuclear energy industry is adding another layer of safety and public protection by developing regional centers for critical equipment that could be needed to maintain safety in the event of an extreme event at America’s nuclear energy facilities. All companies that operate nuclear energy facilities approved a contract to develop two regional response centers managed by Pooled Equipment Inventory Co. The regional response

Report: U.S. Firms at ‘Serious Disadvantage’ to Compete in Global Nuclear Energy Market

‘Billions of Dollars in Exports, Tens of Thousands of U.S. Jobs at Risk’WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 1, 2012—To the detriment of U.S. national security interests and the economy, U.S. energy companies and manufacturers face impediments in capitalizing on the enormous market opportunities presented by the global growth of nuclear energy, business and industry leaders said today in unveiling a new report on nuclear export challenges 

Americans’ Support for Nuclear Energy Solidifies, New National Survey Shows

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 19, 2012—Americans continue to strongly support nuclear energy as an important technology to meet the nation’s future electricity demands, according to a new national survey. In the telephone survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, 65 percent of respondents said they favor the use of nuclear energy as one of the ways to provide electricity in the United States, with 29 percent opposed. Those strongly favoring nuclear energy outnumber those strongly opposed by a two-to-one ratio, 29 percent versus 14 percent, according to the survey conducted Sept. 14-16 by Bisconti Research

NEI Chairman Voices Confidence in Nuclear Energy’s Global and U.S. Future

CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 23, 2012—Increased global reliance on nuclear energy will maintain the U.S. capability to build new nuclear energy facilities when the need for accelerated expansion arises in America, the chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute predicted today. “I am confident that the need for new nuclear power plants will emerge beyond 2020 because the long-term fundamentals for nuclear energy remain sound,” said William Johnson, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Progress Energy. Johnson also serves as NEI chairman. Johnson reminded industry leaders at NEI’s

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