​Join us for the 10th Annual National Cleanup Workshop. Hear from senior DOE leaders, local government officials, and industry leaders about DOE's cleanup priorities, the future of the workforce, and more.

DOE’s Consent Based Siting (CBS) Initiative is focused on a community driven approach to siting a potential consolidated federal interim storage facility (CISF) for spent nuclear fuel.

ECA is hosting this invitation only meeting to identify, explore, and discuss what business case opportunities may existing for a local, tribal or state government hosting a facility that includes spent nuclear fuel and what policies need to be considered for a community hosting such a site.

The goal of the meeting is to assist communities – broadly defined to include local, state and Tribal governments – to build an “art of the possible” vision that incorporates long-term economic development and diversity goals and is based on lessons learned, input from sender, receiver sites and subject matter experts, and facilitating interaction across all the parties required to reach consent.

Community business opportunities could range from investment in infrastructure, co-locating industrial facilities or reprocessing facilities to create new fuel for advanced reactors, from creating community benefits packages or developing an energy hub to seeking direct payments

For more about the meeting and COnsent Based Siting, see ECA’s Consent Based Siting Website.

Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) is pleased to host the third annual ECA Forum with support from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Energy. The only meeting designed to bring together DOE, federal, state, local and tribal governments and policymakers with developers, utilities, regulators, industry, and academia to identify opportunities, challenges and to build the partnerships necessary to support nuclear development.

Communities across the country are considering nuclear projects for many reasons - from diversifying regional economies, creating clean energy jobs or meeting carbon reduction goals, to increasing energy security and rebuilding the U.S. supply chain.  Some communities have a familiarity with nuclear energy projects, while others are just beginning to evaluate potential interest.  The ECA Forum is designed to enable shared learning so that local, State and Tribal governments evaluating nuclear projects can be meaningfully engaged - and prepared - to match the strengths and needs of their communities with new nuclear developers and opportunities. 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
The ECA Forum is open to communities, State, Tribal and local policymakers, industry, utilities, developers, experts, financiers, state legislators, community groups, and economic development organizations working to build capacity and support for new nuclear development in the U.S.

AGENDA:
ECA, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy, has developed an agenda that continues to look holistically at the what a nuclear project entails: from the front-end of the fuel-cycle to the back-end of the fuel cycle, from building local support, to state support and enabling legislation, from identifying the right public-private partnerships, to understanding regulatory oversight. Session topics include:

• How to Build Community Acceptance

• Reusing Energy Sites for New Nuclear Development

• Understanding Industrial Applications of Nuclear Energy

• Pursuing a Reliable, Domestic Nuclear Fuel Supply

• Rebuilding the U.S. Nuclear Supply Chain

AGENDA (PDF) AGENDA (ONLINE)

RESOURCE PAGE

Tuesday, May 7
3pm  Optional Nuclear 101 session
5pm  Welcome Reception *Hosted by Terrestrial Energy

Wednesday, May 8
7:30am Breakfast *Hosted by FLUOR
8:30am ECA Forum
5:30pm Networking Reception *Hosted by Good Energy Collective

Thursday, May 9
8:00am Breakfast
9:00am ECA Forum
5:00pm Networking Reception *Hosted by the Communities of the Tri-Cities

HOTEL INFORMATION:

Click Here to Book a Hotel for the 2024 ECA Forum
A limited number of rooms are available at the SpringHill Suites Kennewick Tri-Cities at the discounted rate of $149/night plus applicable taxes. This rate is available until Friday, April 12, 2024 or until the group block sells out.

SpringHill Suites Kennewick Tri-Cities
7048 West Grandridge Boulevard, Kennewick, Washington, USA, 99336
Tel: +1 509-820-3026
*Complimentary On-Site Parking

MEETING GOALS:
This meeting is part of ECA's New Nuclear Initiative to define the role of local governments in supporting the development of the new nuclear technologies, and answer three core questions:

• What are the newest nuclear technologies and opportunities? 

• What do communities need to know to attract and support new nuclear development/missions?

• How can communities support industry, national laboratories, state, and federal governments and how should they communicate about local resources and development opportunities?

• What hurdles and challenges will communities face - along with industry and developers - and who can we work with to overcome them?

INTERESTED IN BEING A SPONSOR?

To learn more about sponsorship opportunities, please contact Autumn Bogus, ECA Forum Staff, at abogus@la-inc.com.

QUESTIONS?
For any questions, comments, or to learn more about the ECA New Nuclear Forums, please contact Kara Colton, ECA Director of Nuclear Policy, at kara.colton@energyca.org or Faith Sanchez, ECA Program Manager, at faiths@energyca.org.

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The National Governors Association, on behalf of the Combined Intergovernmental Working Group, is hosting the Twenty-first Annual Intergovernmental Meeting with the U.S. Department of Energy on Nuclear Weapons Waste Cleanup on Wednesday, November 30 and Thursday, December 1, 2022. After a three-year hiatus, the meeting will be held in-person in New Orleans. ECA will have the opportunity to meet on Tuesday, November 29.

Please save the date. More details and the link to the meeting registration site will follow.

We look forward to seeing everyone in-person this fall!

September 21-23, 2022

Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA

We are pleased to host the 2022 National Cleanup Workshop at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, VA! Join us to discuss a new era of cleanup success. Hear from senior DOE officials, local government officials, and industry leaders about DOE's cleanup priorities, the future of the workforce, and more.

Session recordings from the 2022 Workshop are available here!

August 3-5, 2022

Please click here to access Forum presentations.

MEETING RECORDINGS COMING SOON.

The Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) is pleased to host The Energy Communities Forum on Hosting New Nuclear Development, August 3-5, 2022, at the Marriott University Park in Salt Lake City.

Please find the current agenda linked here.

As the country pursues an all-of-the-above energy strategy, energy independence and mitigation of climate change impacts, support for nuclear energy continues to grow.  ECA believes in the great potential for nuclear energy to deliver dependable baseload power alongside renewables, create jobs, rebuild the nuclear manufacturing supply chain, and power hybrid energy systems for industry as well as for space propulsion.  New and advanced nuclear technologies like small modular reactors, microreactors, fast-neutron reactors, and accident-tolerant fuels are being developed that promise to be smaller, simpler, safer and, importantly, economically competitive. 

For these “new nuclear” projects – many of them first-of-a-kind – to be commercially-viable and successfully deployed, each project must be integrated into its host community with alignment around key issues: siting, planning, workforce, financing, and marketing. Each project must be located where the community supports the mission and:

• Required federal and private funding,

• Regulatory assurance,

• Demand for the electrons or heat being generated,

• Availability of related goods and services, and

• Partnerships at all levels of government.

Examples of how these partnerships drive success can be seen in communities around the country, specifically those that have long supported federal nuclear missions.  Already DOE frontline communities are engaging on new nuclear development across the DOE complex, including: the Kairos Powers’ Hermes reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee; Centrus Energy’s HALEU Production Facility in Piketon, Ohio; the UAMPS NuScale SMR, the Department of Defense’s Project Pele and MARVEL microreactor at the Idaho National Laboratory; and the TRi Energy Partnership with X-energy in Richland, Washington.  Like many local leaders across the U.S., local governments around these sites are eager to support the new generation of nuclear technologies, realize the myriad benefits these projects bring, and see successful demonstrations become widespread commercial deployment.

To better understand how to match potential host community strengths and needs with those of advanced nuclear project developers, ECA’s Energy Communities Forum on Hosting New Nuclear Development will:

• Provide a venue for nuclear technology and project developers to meet and interact with interested potential host communities, with exhibition booth spaces and separate, small meeting room availability.

• Share lessons learned from communities and developers hosting nuclear power facilities or federal nuclear missions and outline what local government needs to understand and should consider as potential hosts for nuclear projects.

• Facilitate discussions to better understand the outlook for new nuclear development and provide realistic timelines for local governments and economic development entities looking at siting, regulation, public-private partnerships and how to build support from the ground-up. 

The agenda will also feature five case studies on new nuclear development in Idaho; Richland, Washington; Kemmerer, Wyoming; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; and Portsmouth, Ohio with presentations by the teams – from the developer, utility, local government, and local economic development entities – on progress being made and the challenges that remain.

ECA looks forward to participation from the:

• U.S. Department of Energy

• National Reactor Innovation Center

• Nuclear Energy Institute

• Gateway for Innovation in Nuclear

• Idaho National Laboratory

• University of Michigan Fastest Path to Zero Initiative

• U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

• Nuclear Innovation Alliance

• Good Energy Collective

• Tribal governments and Tribal members and

• Cities/counties around the country

  …. And many others

HOTEL INFORMATION

At this time, the Salt Lake City Marriott University Park is fully booked. Please see alternate hotel options below:

Salt Lake City Marriott City Center

220 South State Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84111

801-961-8700

3.6 miles from conference hotel

https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/slccc-salt-lake-city-marriott-city-center/overview/

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Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek

75 South West Temple Salt Lake City, Utah 84101

801-531-0800

4.5 miles from conference hotel

https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/slcut-salt-lake-marriott-downtown-at-city-creek/overview/

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For questions, please contact Kara Colton, ECA Director of Nuclear Policy, at kara.colton@energyca.org or Sarah Templeton, ECA Program Manager, at saraht@energyca.org.

For any questions or inquiries regarding sponsorship opportunities, please contact Sarah Templeton, ECA Program Manager, at saraht@energyca.org

You can also learn more about ECA’s New Nuclear Initiative at www.energyca.org/new-nuclear

Thank You to our Supporters

Interested in Becoming a Supporter?

Please contact Sarah Templeton, ECA Program Manager, by email at saraht@energyca.org for more information on opportunities for supporting the ECA Forum.