Stephen D. Comello

Executive Director, Nuclear Scaling Initiative;

Executive Vice President, EFI Foundation

Dear colleague,

I am pleased to share that today, the Nuclear Scaling Initiative (NSI) unveiled the Reactor Selection Tool (RST), a web-based resource that enables side-by-side comparisons of 35 nuclear reactor designs from around the world. The tool allows governments, utilities, and investors to evaluate reactor technologies using consistent criteria and determine which designs best fit their deployment needs. 

At a moment when the pace of nuclear energy deployment must accelerate, the RST provides decision makers with clear insights that help translate interest in nuclear energy into informed technology choices and real projects on the ground. 

We encourage you to explore the RST on our new website.

NUCLEAR

NSI Unveils New Website and Reactor Selection Tool

NSI’s RST, hosted on its new website, allows stakeholders across the nuclear energy supply chain to compare 35 reactor designs. Each design is rated on a scale from 1 to 5 across eight criteria: deployment timescale, overnight cost, operational cost, cost predictability, security, safety, spent fuel and radioactive waste management, and supply chain.

The RST enables stakeholders to make informed comparisons among various designs and advances informed decision-making around a single reactor design to form an orderbook in the U.S.

Data Dive

EFI Foundation’s (EFIF) report, Exploring the Future of Geologic Hydrogen, breaks down the cost of hydrogen production by production pathway, showing how natural and stimulated geologic hydrogen can be cost competitive with fossil-based production methods.

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• On March 10, NSI will present the RST during a sideline event at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Nuclear Energy Summit in Paris.  

• From March 22 to 27, EFIF will be in Houston for CERAWeek. Follow along with our on-the-ground team.

• Comello and Maddy Cohen, EFIF project manager, attended the Chey Institute’s Trans-Pacific Dialogue convening leaders from the U.S., Japan, and South Korea to address the geopolitical, geoeconomic, and technological challenges affecting the Pacific region. 

• Moniz spoke on a panel at the MIT Energy Conference and was later quoted in Time Magazine advocating for a comprehensive approach for finding solutions to current energy challenges: “the real message is it’s all one conversation.” 
• Hezir spoke to Canary Media about the EU’s proposed exemptions for specific imports under CBAM. 
• Moniz joined Jonathan Garfinkel in a fireside chat at Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Climate Conference, advocating for integrating energy equity, security, and affordability into one conversation.

• Moniz delivered a keynote address at Duke University's third annual “From Billions to Trillions” summit. His remarks, covered in The Chronicle, focused on reducing risk and unlocking markets to scale energy and climate finance.

• Comello shared opening remarks and spoke on a panel addressing solutions to rising energy costs in the U.S. at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s energy affordability workshop. 
• Moniz reflected on his service as the 13th U.S. Secretary of Energy in the Obama Presidency Oral History Project, a digital archive documenting the Obama administration with over 1,100 hours of interviews.