美国核能领导力：美国在核燃料循环管理中的作用

ISSUE BRIEFThe Atlantic Council Global Energy Center develops and promotes pragmatic and nonpartisan policy solutions designed to advance global energy security,enhance economic opportunity,and accelerate pathways to net-zero emissions.MAY 2025Kemal PasamehmetogluUS nuclear energy leadership:The United States role in managing the nuclear fuel cycleIntroductionNuclear energy is indispensable in an energy-secure world with growing ener-gy demand and,in the next few decades,considerable growth is expected in nuclear energy usage globally.Many recent papers and reports by various energy agencies have explored the role of nuclear energy in an energy-secure world.1 Not surprisingly,there is no consensus among the various assessments about the exact magnitude of nucle-ar generation needed to meet the growing clean energy demand.Announcements at the COP28 conference in late 2023 focused on tripling global nuclear energy capacity by mid-century to about 1000 gigawatts electrical(GWe).2 Other studies argue that much larger nuclear energy capacity up to 6000 giga-watts(GW)by mid-century is needed if the role of renewables in the electricity grid is constrained and nuclear power is used for de