One year ago,
@POTUS signed four executive orders—14299, 14300, 14301, and 14302—to reinvigorate America’s nuclear industry. Today, we stand on the precipice of a scientific and industrial victory unseen since the Manhattan Project, the dawn of America’s first atomic age. Implementing the President and Secretary’s vision for American energy dominance has been the privilege of my professional career, and one of the greatest experiences of my life.
But none of our incredible accomplishments over the last year, or the even greater ones on the horizon, came about in a vacuum. Instead, America’s nuclear renaissance grew from the efforts of the technical staff, an amazing mix of physicists and engineers who toiled thanklessly for decades during nuclear’s long winters. I cannot thank
@POTUS and
@SecretaryWright enough for giving me the chance to work directly with the brightest minds in our nation to enable our most innovative entrepreneurs. The real heroes behind our efforts at
@ENERGY and
@NRCgov will never receive enough public credit for their contributions. I will spend the rest of my career trying to make that right.
Regardless, America’s nuclear success isn’t about any of us. It is, however, a story about all of us and what Americans can accomplish in a year, united by glorious purpose. When our reactors turn on, when we announce the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, when our centrifuges spin, and when our electrorefiners burn away actinides, we will validate America’s exceptionalism. We have much left to do, and many miles to go before we can sleep. But when we are done, we will have given America back its license to dream.