EM Leader Highlights How Cleanup Helps Achieve DOE Goals at Caucus Event

WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 100 people attended the first U.S. House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus event of the year, where officials spoke to the theme of “Cleanup Today for a Nuclear Tomorrow —How the DOE Office of Environmental Management is Helping to Unleash Energy Innovation and Commercial Nuclear Power.” EM Senior Advisor Roger Jarrell addressed the audience at the March 26 event of the caucus, which marks its 30th anniversary this year. Energy Secretary Chris Wright has a bold, ambitious agenda for ushering in a golden era of American energy dominance and unleashing nuclear power, and EM is uniquely positioned to contribute to this golden ere as it transforms liabilities into assets, Jarrell noted. Jarrell was joined at the event by caucus co-chairs U.S. Reps. Chuck Fleischmann and Susie Lee, U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, and a panel that included senior leaders from Oak Ridge cleanup contractor UCOR; Orano USA, which has announced plans to build a new uranium enrichment plant in Oak Ridge; Centrus Energy, which operates a new enrichment facility at the Portsmouth Site and manufactures enrichment technology at Oak Ridge; and Oklo Inc., an advanced reactor developer that has announced plans to locate an advanced reactor at the Portsmouth Site. Pictured from left are Fleischmann, Jarrell and Lee.

-Contributors: Jason Modeste, David Sheeley