ENERGY INNOVATION: Nuclear Receives Boost in the Great Global Energy Race

Glance at the energy news these days and there’s no getting around the fact that the U.S. is going all in in another nuclear energy wave. The federal government has also swung back from renewables, backing other routes to energy diversification.

On December 1, the Trump administration and U.S. Department of Energy announced the renaming of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to the National Laboratory of the Rockies, with lab director Jud Virden stating that “the new name reflects the Trump administration’s broader vision for the lab’s applied energy research, which historically emphasized alternative and renewable sources of generation, and honors the natural splendor of the lab’s surroundings in Golden, Colorado.”

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