Abstract
COP 28 has been referred to as the Nuclear COP with delegations from more than 20 countries joining a pledge to triple nuclear power by 2050. Earlier in 2023, the G7 ministers of climate, energy, and environment issued a communication committing to maximize use of existing reactors, work collaboratively to develop secure supply chains for fuel, technology, and human resources, and to working domestically and with partner countries to build advanced reactors. These policies forecast rapid growth of nuclear in the US and partner countries over the coming decades. This presentation covers global policies related to nuclear as well as the programs and legislation in the US and EU intended to accelerate progress towards these goals and the social and legal obstacles to their attainment.

Bio
Tara Righetti is the Occidental Chair of Energy and Environmental Policies at the University of Wyoming. She holds appointments in the School of Energy Resources, and College of Law, and the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. She is also the co-director of the nuclear energy research center. Professor Righetti's research focuses on property law and administrative regulation of the energy and decarbonization sectors. Her most recent interests include research into heat systems, licensing processes for advanced reactors, and uses of pore space in federal lands for carbon sequestration. She was recently appointed to the White House Federal Lands CCS Permitting Task Force and is a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the International Standardization Organization technical committee for CCUS. From 2021-2022 Professor Righetti served as a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Université de Lille, in France. She lives in Laramie, Wyoming with her three children.