Sputnik, Climate, Fukushima and Small Modular Reactors: Innovation and Planning to "Change the Game"
Victor
Reis
,
U.S. Department of Energy
President Obama has suggested the Sputnik-to-Apollo program as a model for innovation and developing clean energy in the United States. I'll use that model to analyze several presidentially driven programs: Stockpile Stewardship, Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, and indicate how it might be applied to small nuclear modular reactors in the aftermath of Fukushima.