Office of Nuclear Energy

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Office of Nuclear Energy
Type: Executive Departments (Sub-organization)
Parent organization: Department of Energy
Top organization:
Employees: 700
Executive: Assistant Secretary
Budget: $1.3 billion (Fiscal Year 2023)
Address: 1000 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20585, USA
Website: https://www.energy.gov/ne/office-nuclear-energy
Creation Legislation: Department of Energy Organization Act (1977)
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Office of Nuclear Energy
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Mission
To advance nuclear energy science and technology to meet U.S. energy, environmental, and economic needs. This includes supporting the development of advanced nuclear reactors, fuel cycles, and maintaining U.S. leadership in nuclear energy technology.
Services

Research and development; Advanced reactor demonstration; Nuclear fuel cycle; Nuclear waste management

Regulations
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy of Office of Nuclear Energy
Incumbent
Michael Goff
Acting 
since May 3, 2024
United States Department of Energy
Reports toUnder Secretary of Energy for Science and Innovation
AppointerPresident of the United States
FormationApril 3, 2006
First holderDennis Spurgeon

The Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) is an agency of the United States Department of Energy which promotes nuclear power as a resource capable of meeting the energy, environmental, and national security needs of the United States by resolving technical and regulatory barriers through research, development, and demonstration.

The Office is led by the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy, who is appointed by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. The current acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy is Michael Goff.[1]

Overview

The Office of Nuclear Energy is guided by the following four research objectives detailed in its Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap:[2][3]

  • Develop technologies and other solutions that can improve the reliability, sustain the safety and extend the life of current reactors.
  • Develop improvements in the affordability of new reactors to enable nuclear energy to help meet the Administration's energy security and climate change goals.
  • Develop sustainable fuel cycles.
  • Understand and minimize the risks of nuclear proliferation and terrorism.

Organization

The Office is under the general supervision of the Under Secretary of Energy for Science and Innovation. It is administered by the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy (NE-1), who is appointed by the President of the United States. The Assistant Secretary is supported in running the Office by a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and five career Deputy Assistant Secretaries. Each of the five Deputy Assistant Secretaries oversee a different branch of the Office's work. As of 2022, staffing and organization was as follows:[1]

  • Assistant Secretary
    • Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary
      • Deputy Assistant Secretary – Nuclear Infrastructure Programs - Tracey Bishop
      • Deputy Assistant Secretary – Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition - Paul Murray
      • Deputy Assistant Secretary – Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Supply Chain - Dr. Jon Carmack
      • Deputy Assistant Secretary – International Nuclear Energy Policy and Cooperation - Aleshia Duncan
      • Deputy Assistant Secretary – Reactor Fleet and Advanced Reactor Deployment - Alice Caponiti

Laboratory

The Office of Nuclear Energy is the landlord of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). INL is in southern Idaho, just west of the Eastern Snake River Plain. It occupies 890 square miles (2,300 km2) of desert and is about 42 miles (68 km) from Idaho Falls.

INL is an applied engineering laboratory dedicated to supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's research of nuclear energy, national and homeland security, and clean energy. Past and current work includes initial development of: nuclear reactor designs, prototype reactors for the U.S. Navy, and technologies to manage nuclear waste. INL also conducts research supporting fuel cycle development, as well nuclear energy demos and deployments.

Lab history

INL was established in 1949 as the "National Reactor Testing Station" by the Atomic Energy Commission. It is the location of historic Experimental Breeder Reactor Number I (EBR-I), which was the first nuclear reactor to generate usable electrical power.

CASL Hub

The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors (CASL) was established in July 2010 as the first of five Department of Energy Innovation Hubs.[4][5] It was administered by the Office of Nuclear Energy, and coordinated by Oak Ridge National Lab and INL.[6] CASL had one goal: To develop a simulation environment that modeled the operation of an entire reactor down to the characteristics of a single fuel rod (which significantly exceeded the resolution available with existing industry tools). This simulation environment was named the Virtual Reactor. The Virtual Reactor was designed and built to provide solutions to a wide variety of reactor performance challenges.[7]

In order to develop what was eventually called the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA), it was necessary for CASL to conduct both basic research and technology development.[8] Work of such scope and complexity was accomplished through a partnership of U.S. government, academia, and industry.[4] In 2020, the CASL project concluded, making VERA available for licensing and deployment by the nuclear industry.[9][10]

List of assistant secretaries

The Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy is the head of the Office of Nuclear Energy. The assistant secretary is responsible for a budget of $1.626 billion as of fiscal year 2021.

Parties

  Democratic   Republican

Status

  Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy

Portrait Name Took office Left office President(s)
George W. Cunningham[11] 1979 1981 Jimmy Carter
File:Shelby Brewer.jpg Shelby Brewer[12] 1981 1984 Ronald Reagan
A. David Rossin[13] 1986 1987
William H. Young[14] 1989 1993 George H. W. Bush
File:Dennis R. Spurgeon official photo (cropped).jpg Dennis Spurgeon April 3, 2006 2009 George Bush
File:Warren F. Miller, Jr. official portrait (cropped).jpg Pete Miller 2009 November 2010[15] Barack Obama
File:Dr. Peter B. Lyons (cropped).jpg Peter Lyons[16][17] April 14, 2011 June 30, 2015[18]
John Kotek John Kotek 2015 January 2017[19]
Edward McGinnis Edward McGinnis May 2017 November 2017 Donald Trump
File:Rita Baranwal official photo (cropped).jpg Rita Baranwal July 11, 2019[20] January 8, 2021[21]
Dennis Michael Miotla Dennis Michael Miotla January 8, 2021 May 10, 2021 Joseph Biden
Kathryn Huff Kathryn Huff May 10, 2021 January 19, 2022
Andrew Griffith Andrew Griffith January 19, 2022[22] May 11, 2022
Kathryn Huff Kathryn Huff May 11, 2022[23] May 3, 2024
Michael Goff May 3, 2024 Incumbent

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Leadership" (in en). https://www.energy.gov/ne/leadership. 
  2. ↑ "Nuclear Energy Roadmap" (pdf). https://www.ne.doe.gov/pdfFiles/NuclearEnergy_Roadmap_Final.pdf. 
  3. ↑ "About Us|Department of Energy". Energy.gov. http://energy.gov/ne/about-us. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bumpus, Kristi (13 August 2020). "CASL wraps up 10 years of solving nuclear problems — and hands toolbox to industry | ORNL". https://www.ornl.gov/news/casl-wraps-10-years-solving-nuclear-problems-and-hands-toolbox-industry. 
  5. ↑ "U.S. Department of Energy Innovation Hubs" (in en). https://www.energy.gov/science-innovation/innovation/hubs. 
  6. ↑ "The Consortium For Advance Simulation Of Light Water Reactors". Oak Ridge National Laboratory. https://casl.gov/. 
  7. ↑ "VERA | The Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications". https://vera.ornl.gov/. 
  8. ↑ "Impact – CASL". https://casl.gov/impact/. 
  9. ↑ "VERA nuclear reactor simulation software licensed commercially for first time | ORNL". https://www.ornl.gov/news/vera-nuclear-reactor-simulation-software-licensed-commercially-first-time. 
  10. ↑ "The Consortium for Advanced Simulation of Light Water Reactors Virtual Meeting" (in en). American Nuclear Society. Proceedings (virtual: www.ans.org) (3090). November 2020. https://www.ans.org/pubs/proceedings/issue-3090/. 
  11. ↑ "NOMINATIONS SUBMITTED TO THE SENATE Week Ending Friday, | The American Presidency Project". https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/nominations-submitted-the-senate-week-ending-friday-73. 
  12. ↑ "Brewer, Shelby T." (in en-US). 2015-09-10. https://www.twst.com/bio/shelby-t-brewer/. 
  13. ↑ "A. David Rossin -- ANS / About / Presidents". https://www.ans.org/about/presidents/arossin/. 
  14. ↑ "William H. Young - Bio | NAS" (in en). https://www.nas.org/authors/william_h_young. 
  15. ↑ "Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy: Who is Peter Lyons?". http://www.allgov.com/news/appointments-and-resignations/assistant-secretary-for-nuclear-energy-who-is-peter-lyons?news=842491. Retrieved August 8, 2019. 
  16. ↑ "Official Biography". http://energy.gov/contributors/peter-b-lyons. Retrieved August 30, 2011. 
  17. ↑ "Obituary: The nuclear community remembers Pete Lyons" (in en). American Nuclear Society. 3 May 2021. https://www.ans.org/news/article-2861/the-nuclear-community-remembers-peter-lyons/. 
  18. ↑ "Peter Lyons". http://umenergysymposium.com/speaker/peter-lyons/. Retrieved August 7, 2019. 
  19. ↑ "InTheNews - Kotek joins NEI as VP for policy development...". https://nuc1.inl.gov/Lists/InTheNews/DisplayForm.aspx?ID=21&ContentTypeId=0x0100E41428CC11AD004DBEFB74D7051B98D8. 
  20. ↑ "Rita Baranwal Sworn in as U.S. Department of Energy Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy". https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/rita-baranwal-sworn-us-department-energy-assistant-secretary-nuclear-energy. Retrieved August 7, 2019. 
  21. ↑ "Baranwal departs Office of Nuclear Energy -- ANS / Newswire". https://www.ans.org/news/article-2526/baranwal-departs-office-of-nuclear-energy/. 
  22. ↑ "Leadership | Department of Energy". 2022-01-20. https://www.energy.gov/ne/leadership. 
  23. ↑ "DOE Welcomes New Biden-Harris Appointees" DOE. May 10, 2021. https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-welcomes-new-biden-harris-appointees
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