PreView: The Changing Geopolitics of Nuclear Energy

Jane Nakano with the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program introduces her new report, The Changing Geopolitics of Nuclear Energy, that illuminates why and how Russia and China are promoting nuclear power technology exports, and what the United States should do to address the foreign policy and commercial implications.

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[nathangale]

Thanks for the report, the US nuclear industry has atrophied for a long time and I think we will need it in the future, so hopefully the government and society will reinvest in the technology.

[critcomsom]

Russia should smarten up and not be such a boy toy for China. Better for them, better for us and better for the world

[ΔιονυσηςΣταματης-λυ]

The thing that I don't understand about the US is why it hasn't imposed sanctions on Turkey after the S-400 purchase and Erdogan's claim that everyone needs to have nuclear weapons and that is why he is bulding 3 nuclear reactors in Turkey for the last 4 years with Russian technology.

[dominicfastbender]

Would like to see safe thorium salt reactors from the US before China leads the way there as well.

[onedayatatime]

Her accent made it a bit challenging to understand what she was trying to say here and there ...A subtitle of some sort would be nice. Regardless I did get the gist and what she is intending to emphasize here...which just makes me sigh.. Not exactly the kind of insight or vision that we need I think.. So China is going to become the next biggest exporter or nuclear related technology and her so-called insight on the matter is US should not let that happen by spreading pro-nuke propaganda to its nation? Just preposterous.