Presidential science adviser calls for increased energy R&D to create jobs and boost business; supports conclusions of MIT nuclear study.
David L. Chandler, MIT News Office
The two toughest challenges the nation faces in terms of energy, according to presidential science adviser John Holdren ’65 SM ’66, are meeting our transportation needs with less oil, and meeting economic aspirations while producing less climate-altering carbon-dioxide emissions. But the good news, he told an MIT audience on Monday, Oct. 25, is that meeting those challenges really can promote significant job creation and business growth...
...He said he agrees fully with the conclusions of the recently released MIT study on The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, calling for economic support of the first several new nuclear plants in this country, as well as for increased research on potential new fuel-cycle technologies for the longer run and for long-term spent fuel storage options...
The MIT nuclear studies, he said, “have in my judgment reached all the right conclusions,” and he has been actively circulating those documents in Washington.