Late last week, NuScale Power Corp., which is developing America’s flagship small modular reactor (SMR), lost its only firm utility customer, the Utah Associated Municipal Power System. Once selling at nearly $15 a share, NuScale stock yesterday sold for $2.31. Experts are now speculating on...
Earlier this summer, well before Hamas launched its raids against Israel, Pierre Goldschmidt, the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) former Deputy Director for Safeguards, sent me an analysis of how to approach creating a nuclear weapons free zone in the Middle East. I agreed to...
Last week, the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States released its final report. Although Congress tasked it to assess the role of space systems in America’s strategic posture, the commission dedicated less than a half-page of its 160-page review to this...
On October 2nd, the British Defense Ministry awarded $4.9B to provide nuclear submarines to Australia by the late 2030s. This news comes after Richard Marles, Australia’s defense minister, stared down grass-roots Labor opposition to the project. The opposition asked how sustainable is the nuclear submarine...
Recent reports of Elon Musk’s refusal to allow Ukraine to use his satellites to help it mount strikes against Russian military targets in Crimea pose a basic question: Just how sustainable might military use of commercial satellites be? So far, the United States and other...
In an effort to get Saudi Arabia to recognize Israel, the Biden Administration is considering offering Riyadh a U.S. civilian nuclear cooperative agreement that would allow the Kingdom to enrich uranium, a process that could bring it within weeks or days of acquiring a nuclear...
After Russia’s military assaults against Ukraine’s power reactors, many fear the precedent has been set for future military attacks against power reactors, not only in Europe, but in the Middle and Far East as well as South Asia. Over 170 nations have ratified Protocol 1...
May 31, 2023 Inside the IC interviews NPEC’s Executive Director on “The over-classification problem in government.” What drove NPEC to focus on over-classification as a public policy problem? http://npolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/5.31.23-fed-podcast-1.mp3 What are some examples of how over-classification is harming America’s national security future? http://npolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/5.31.23-fed-podcast-2.mp3 ...
Earlier this month, NPEC and the American Bar Association cohosted an event on Capitol Hill featuring Senator Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Senator Mike Rounds who also is a member of the committee and sits on the Senate Armed...
This week, commercial imagery revealed more on China’s extensive high-altitude military balloon and blimp program. Experts believe that the purpose of this program is to complement or substitute for Chinese military satellites if they should be disabled in future space combat. Is overflying other states...
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