01/07/2026 at 10:15AM
The Subcommittee on Energy has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, January 7, 2026, at 10:15 a.m. (ET) in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “American Energy Dominance: Dawn of the New Nuclear Era.” The hearing will examine developments in the nuclear industry relating to licensing, deployment, implementation of recently enacted federal laws, and administration policies to facilitate the expansion of nuclear energy resources to meet the nation’s urgent energy and security demands.
Witnesses
- Maria Korsnick, President and CEO, Nuclear Energy Institute
- John Williams, Senior V.P., Technical Services & External Affairs, Southern Company
- John Wagner, PhD, Director, Idaho National Laboratory
- Judi Greenwald, President and CEO, Nuclear Innovation Alliance
Korsnick:
“Targeted government-sponsored tools to protect consumers, taxpayers, and investors are needed to manage early-project cost and schedule risk, unlock private capital, and enable repeatable deployment at scale.”
Williams:
“Mitigate ‘tail risk’ and create a federal program that provides cost sharing over a certain threshold of additional, unanticipated construction costs. The Accelerating Reliable Capacity Act of 2024, proposed by Senator Risch, is a good example of this concept. Potential legislative consideration: Amend IRS limitations on transferability of tax credits. Specifically, amend the tax code to eliminate the Section 6418(g)(4) Tax Credit Transfer Restriction to provide “early movers” with more cash flow during construction to mitigate the risk of credit downgrades and the ability to monetize credits based on qualified progress expenditures.”
Wagner: “We must reclaim nuclear leadership to project American values and standards globally.”
Greenwald:
“NRC’s rulemaking independence is clearly in the national interest because it provides nuclear energy — which has enormously important security, environmental, and energy reliability benefits — with the social license to operate.”