NIA Statement in Support of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act and Relevant Nuclear Energy Provisions
WASHINGTON D.C. The Nuclear Innovation Alliance (NIA) shared the following statement in support of the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA), including several bipartisan nuclear energy bills that have been recently added to BAAJA. This statement may be attributed to NIA President and CEO Judi Greenwald:
U.S. Nuclear Energy Project Tracker Update – October 2026
In February 2026, NIA released the U.S. Nuclear Energy Project Tracker to help stakeholders understand the status of early mover projects in the United States with respect to five key indicators: (1) site selection and site work, (2) licensing, (3) project teaming, (4) offtake, and (5) funding. The October 2026 update to that tracker is available today. Here are a few highlights:
U.S. Nuclear Energy Project Tracker Update – September 2026
In February of 2026, NIA released the U.S. Nuclear Energy Project Tracker to help stakeholders understand the status of early mover projects in the United States with respect to five key indicators: (1) site selection and site work, (2) licensing, (3) project teaming, (4) offtake, and (5) funding. The September 2026 update to that tracker is available today. Here are a few highlights:
The Cloud Has to Be Built Somewhere: The AI and nuclear buildout depends on community trust
For years, the “cloud” sounded weightless, as if data floated above us and the digital economy existed everywhere and nowhere at once.
But the cloud was never in the sky. It has always been on land, plugged into the grid, cooled by water and air, and built in communities.
That reality has become impossible to ignore. The International Energy Agency projects that global electricity use by data centers will roughly double by 2030. In the United States, the Electric Power Research Institute estimates that data centers could account for 9 to 17 percent of electricity demand by 2030, up from roughly 4 to 5 percent in 2024.
NIA Statement on Eight Nuclear Regulatory Commission Proposed Rules
The following statement may be attributed to Judi Greenwald, President and CEO of the Nuclear Innovation Alliance:
"This has been an extraordinarily busy summer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and its stakeholders. NRC proposed eight rules with comment periods in July and August.
“With these proposed rules now public, the NRC is nearly done with proposing all the rules under the wholesale rule rewrite called for by Executive Order 14300.