Challenge Accepted: Millennials Eager To Shape World's Nuclear Narrative

Energy leaders from around the world are challenging millennials to help policy, opinion leaders and their peers to tell nuclear’s story as a clean energy source.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), along with a number of its national lab experts, recently participated in the International Youth Nuclear Congress Conference—held jointly this year in Bariloche, Argentina with Women in Nuclear Global.

Young professionals engage in a panel discussion about nuclear with energy leaders from around the world.

Giulia Bisconti | U.S. Department of Energy

It was the perfect place to engage roughly 600 young professionals, particularly women, in joining the clean energy workforce to move the industry forward.

“We are here to revitalize international interest in nuclear,” said Suzie Jaworowski, a senior advisor with DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy. “We need young people who care about the environment to take the time to study the diverse and new solutions that nuclear energy can contribute to the clean energy systems of the future.”

Launching A New Nuclear Initiative

Jaworowski joined top energy officials from Canada and Argentina in leading spirited discussions centered on a new global initiative that ministers will launch in May at the Clean Energy Ministerial in Denmark—one of the world’s largest forums on clean energy policy.

The Nuclear Innovation: Clean Energy Future, or NICE Future initiative, is a global effort to make sure nuclear has a seat at the table when it comes to high-level discussions about innovation and advanced clean energy systems of the future.

The initiative will be led by the United States, Canada and Japan. Twelve additional countries have already expressed interest in joining.

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