Let’s Keep Our Hands Off the Emergency Oil Supply
April 9, 2012

While the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not an effective tool to address the present circumstances, the president and Congress must take more strategic and lasting action to protect the public and the economy from the effects of $100-a-barrel oil and $4-a-gallon gasoline. Despite the traditional election-year rancor, there is actually considerable bipartisan agreement on what needs to be done. Increasing domestic oil production is extremely important to our economy and to reducing our trade deficit.

Small Modular Reactors - The iPads of Nuclear Power
March 22, 2012

The existing technology program is also moving forward. Assistant Energy Secretary for Nuclear Energy Peter Lyons told a Bipartisan Policy Center session in Washington DC March 16, that he expects to begin seeking candidates at the end of the month for a five-year, $452 million cost-share that would get one or two SMR designs licensed and ready for deployment.