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Maria G. Korsnick, president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute, a trade group that promotes nuclear power, said the timeline would be much faster than that — “like the next year or two.”

“We’re talking about the big nuclear stuff here, because that’s what’s in our heads,” he said. “I’m just going to say, you’re about to see a lot of different opportunities for nuclear.”

“There will still be a role for big nuclear,” he added. But designs for small modular and even micro facilities “will be out in the next few years.”

Korsnick added that nuclear reactors designed with modular technology can be built much faster and cheaper than conventional ones.

While experts in the room said they believed nuclear power had a major role to play globally, some said they thought that was not the case for the United States.

“I think the world is in places like China and India where coal is still king and where average annual demand growth is very high,” said Tyson Slocum, director of the Public Citizen energy program, nuclear power could be a major player. , aforementioned.

But “we basically use the same amount of electricity we used in the United States today as we did more than a decade ago,” he said. “So it doesn’t make much sense to build nuclear power in a kind of negative demand environment.”

Participants: Oksana Markarova, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States of America; Philippe Étienne, French Ambassador to the United States, Embassy of France; David Turk, deputy energy minister, Department of Energy; Justin Friedman, senior adviser for commercial competition in nuclear energy, US Department of State, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation; Andrés Gluski, CEO of AES; Maria G. Korsnick, president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute; Erin Sikorsky, Director of the Center for Climate and Security; Tyson Slocum, director of the energy program, Public Citizen; Daniel B. Poneman, President and CEO of Centrus Energy; Alan Ahn, climate and energy program, Third Way senior assistant; Eric L. Veiel, co-chairman and chief investment officer of Global Equity, is T. Rowe Price.