Full Title: The value of the US nuclear power complex to US national security
Author(s): Dr. Robert F. Ichord, Jr. and Bart Oosterveld
Publisher(s): Atlantic Council Global Energy Center
Publication Date: October 14, 2019
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Description (excerpt):
In this analysis, the Atlantic Council has set out to estimate the value that the civilian nuclear power sector contributes to the United States’ national security apparatus. Based on a series of inputs, this analysis and conservative estimation found that the nuclear power complex contributes an equivalent of more than $42.4 billion to US national security, as broadly defined. In other words, the lack of a civilian nuclear sector would present an immediate and significant economic shock (and impact on the labor force)—which, in turn, would have immediate and longer-term budgetary implications for the US government.