The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has issued a Request for Information directly to the states to help modernize the nation’s full nuclear fuel cycle and strengthen America’s leadership in advanced nuclear energy. Flibe Energy wholeheartedly supports the concept of state-backed nuclear research and development sites throughout the country.

We have been fully engaged with several states as they prepare their pitches, working to keep the competition strong — not only among the proposed state campuses, but also in the breadth of technology approaches and fuel cycles those campuses would advance. A healthy field of contenders is the surest way to surface the best ideas.

DOE would do well to champion every interested state willing to take up the challenge. The Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses concept is exactly the kind of forward-looking, infrastructure-level commitment the country needs to make advanced nuclear a reality, and Flibe Energy is eager to help the states that step forward succeed.