Doctors for Nuclear Energy is a volunteer organization with no connections to industry.  We believe that the evidence points to Nuclear Energy as the most effective tool to transition off fossil fuels and eliminate air pollution.  We advocate for nuclear energy as the evidence based tool we need right now to clean up our air and reduce the impacts of climate change. Every year 7 million people die prematurely from air pollution. Particulate matter from coal fired power plants contribute to millions of cases of pneumonia, asthma, heart disease, stroke and premature birth. Climate change poses enormous challenges to health. Forest fires, droughts, food shortages and the spread of tropical diseases threaten the peace and stability or our societies. It is a little known fact that Nuclear Energy has already successfully replaced the burning of fossil fuels in France, Sweden and Ontario and decarbonized their electricity.

Emergency Reactor was founded to speak the truth about our energy solutions. With an estimated two billion of our fellow humans living in energy poverty, we need to create a space in the green movement to talk about addressing this and other social justice issues. People are afraid to talk about climate change because dealing with it is hard and the solutions require big commitments and investments. Many environmentalists skirt the issue and pretend that renewables can do the job, when they really know that they will increase energy poverty. If you question the idea of living with less energy, as we do, given that the world is clearly finding new ways to use more energy, not less, you will quickly realise that solar and wind power need a reliable back up energy source, which is currently fossil fuels.

Many argue that battery storage to make renewables better is just around the corner. We’ve been hearing this for a long time but climate change keeps getting worse and that we don’t have time to wait to turn more corners.  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has called for more nuclear power. Rich countries need reliable, non carbon energy to wean off of fossil fuels, and poor countries need clean energy to develop. No matter how you look at it, the solution comes back to nuclear energy. So it is time to advocate for nuclear – even if you risk being called a “nuclear industry shill’. The changes that we make to address climate change must be based on robust evidence, else we risk making things worse instead of better. We cannot continue to ‘shill’ our way through the Anthropocene. We need to react now, rationally, based on scientific evidence.

Energy for Growth‘s vision is that no person’s potential be wasted because the power where they live and work is too costly or too unreliable.  To get there, all countries need to use data and scientific evident to drive energy decisions, rather than ideologies.  THis will then enable all countries to achieve the high-energy future they need to become prosperous, with an economy best able to protect human equality and the environment.

Energy Communities Alliance (ECA) is the only non-profit, membership organization of local governments adjacent to or impacted by U.S. Department of Energy activities. We bring together local government officials to share information, establish policy positions, and promote community interests to address an increasingly complex set of constituent, environmental, regulatory, and economic development needs. The ECA, whose members host U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facilities, strongly supports nuclear power and created a unique self-funded, one-year initiative to define the role of local governments in supporting the development of the new nuclear technologies.  Some of the projects that ECA will focus on include small modular reactors, micro and advanced reactors, a skilled nuclear workforce and new nuclear missions around the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) federal facilities.

Energy for Humanity is a UK-and Switzerland-based non-profit organisation with a global outlook focused on solving climate change and enabling universal access to modern energy services. Energy for Humanity strongly advocates for evidence-based, whole-system, and technology-inclusive solutions in pursuit of the best (fastest, most cost-effective, most feasible) outcomes for people and nature. Our goal is to address these themes and to inspire meaningful action. Future leaders will need all the tools at their disposal to solve global challenges including climate change and air pollution, whilst providing low cost, clean power to billions of people and improving life chances for women and children throughout the world.

Energy Options Network (EON) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to multiply and accelerate Transformative Zero-Carbon Energy Solutions needed to deeply reduce fossil fuel use. While we applaud the growth of all ‘climate scale’ zero carbon technologies, we believe that solutions outside of today’s more mainstream portfolio will be essential to achieve deep decarbonization by 2050. 35% of the cumulative CO2 emissions reductions needed to shift to a sustainable path come from technologies currently at the prototype or demonstration phase. A further 40% of the reductions rely on technologies not yet commercially deployed on a mass-market scale. This calls for urgent efforts to accelerate innovation.

Environmental Progress (EP) was founded to achieve two goals: lift all humans out of poverty, and save the natural environment. These goals can be achieved by mid-century — but only if we remove the obstacles to cheap, reliable and clean energy.  Environmental Progress’s biggest victories were saving America’s largest source of clean energy — nuclear power — in Illinois, New York, Connecticut, France, South Korea, and New Jersey. We did so by building a humanistic environmental movement demanding energy justice for all.

Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy is an independent non-profit and international network of over 10,000 environmentalists who recognize the usefulness and importance of supporting nuclear energy to protect the environment and to help make the world better for humanity.  The group, founded in France, has developed branches and twenty other countries, including the UK, USA, Japan, South Africa, Canada, Australia, Poland, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, China, Portugal, Russia, Czech, Albania, Sweden and Romania.  EFN welcomes professionals and teachers from around the world to contribute to global education about nuclear energy, nuclear medicine, nuclear science and technologies and how they fit in with other energy sources and by-products.  The group maintains websites in a number of languages with articles on subjects relating to nuclear energy.

Generation Atomic is a non-profit founded by members of the younger generation who believe that atomic energy has the potential to save the environment, foster innovation, create jobs, and strengthen our society.  Unfortunately, at the same time, the largest source of clean energy is at risk at a time when we need it most. Generation Atomic seeks to engage the public using events, social media, and advocacy technology to communicate the benefits of nuclear power.  They also work to train a new wave of advocates from a vast array of backgrounds and empower individuals and groups to represent nuclear at the local level by maintaining a diverse network of advocates in our “nuclear family.”

Global Nexus Initiative is a partnership between two non-traditional stakeholder, the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) and the Partnership for Global Security (PGS), which have jointly created the Global Nexus Initiative (GNI). The GNI will explore the linkages among climate change, nuclear power, and global security issues with the goal of crafting realistic and actionable policy solutions that will ensure the safe and secure use of existing and new nuclear energy sources, support economic vitality, and protect people and the environment.

Good Energy Collective is a non-profit policy research organization. They are building the progressive case for nuclear energy as an essential part of the broader climate change agenda, because all communities should have equitable access to clean energy that will meet their needs and create high-quality jobs. Nuclear energy is up to the task, but it’s going to need to look different. It’s not just new technologie that are needed—the entire industry needs to change from the ground up. It must grapple with the injustices of its history. There needs to be a social science policy research agenda to match the engineering innovations. And most importantly, the industry needs a diverse group of rising leaders to partner with the climate movement to create a coherent vision to address climate change and inequality. Good Energy Collective is a new kind of organization that will get that work started. Starting with smart policies at every scale to accelerate the just and equitable deployment of advanced nuclear technologies, based upon research that is rooted in social science and champions a whole-of-government approach, so that communities can go from ideas, to development, to thoughtful and effective deployment faster and more efficiently.

The International Atomic Energy Agency  The IAEA is the world’s central intergovernmental forum for scientific and technical co-operation in the nuclear field. It works for the safe, secure and peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology, contributing to international peace and security and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

The Hoover Institution  The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is an American public policy think tank and research institution located at Stanford University in California. It began as a library founded in 1919 by Republican and Stanford alumnus Herbert Hoover, before he became President of the United States.

The Long Now  The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996* to develop the Clock and Library projects, as well as to become the seed of a very long-term cultural institution. The Long Now Foundation hopes to provide a counterpoint to today’s accelerating culture and help make long-term thinking more common. We hope to foster responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years.

Monterey Bay for Nuclear Power  We are environmentalists, scientists, parents, employees and engineers who love our natural surroundings in Monterey Bay and want to see them preserved. We are also a group of people living and working in the Monterey Bay area who support nuclear power. We support generating electricity with nuclear energy. We want to save Diablo Canyon, California’s last operating nuclear power plant, which works hard to keep our air and our bay clean, while powering California with carbon-free power 24 x 7 x 365.

Mothers for Nuclear  We are friends, mothers, environmentalists, scientists, and engineers. We used to be skeptical of nuclear. Now we consider it essential to protecting our children from pollution, our landscapes from sprawl, and future generations from global warming. We’ve learned a lot from our experience working at Diablo Canyon, California’s last nuclear power plant. We started Mothers for Nuclear as a way to share our stories and help address concerns. We also hope to begin a dialogue with those who are skeptical of nuclear.

The Nature Conservancy.  Released a report in October 2018 called “The Science of Sustainability.” In this report, they debunk the myth that environmental interests and economic interests are in conflict.  Instead they acknowledge that achieving a sustainable future is dependent on our ability to secure both thriving human communities and abundant and healthy natural ecosystems.  So, the Nature Conservancy partnered with twelve other organizations to find pathways to serve both the needs of people and nature and addressed all of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in turn. They evaluated both the path we are on and the path we need to take to become sustainable.  They found that, in order to both meet increased energy demand and keep the climate within safe boundaries, we’ll need to alter the way we produce energy, curtailing emissions of carbon and other harmful chemicals.  They found that reducing harmful carbon-based energy could be offset by increasing the share of energy from renewable sources and nuclear energy combined to a total of 85% of the world’s energy demand, per this graphic.

Navigating Nuclear: Energizing Our World is an exciting new program from the American Nuclear Society and Discovery Education, designed to provide educators with standards-aligned activities, lessons, career explorations, and project ideas to clarify common misconceptions surrounding nuclear science and explore its role in future technological applications.  Navigating Nuclear aims to increase awareness of the safe, effective, and efficient applications and contributions of nuclear science and technology by providing standards-aligned classroom resources for educators and students that explore the current, real-world applications of nuclear processes and their role in future advancements.  Discovery Education partners with districts, states, and like-minded organizations to captivate students, empower teachers, and transform classrooms with customized solutions that increase academic achievement. Serving 4.5 million educators and over 50 million students, Discovery Education’s services are in approximately half of U.S. classrooms, 50 percent of all primary schools in the UK, and more than 50 countries.

New Nuclear Watch Institute (NNWI) is an industry supported think-tank, focused on the international development of nuclear energy as a means for governments to safeguard their long term sustainable energy needs. They believe that nuclear is vital to achieving binding Paris Climate Agreement objectives and tackling the challenge of climate change. Since inception, NNWI has been recogniszed in the press as a high profile nuclear industry body working across the UK and European nuclear sector.

NICE Future.  The Nuclear Innovation: Clean Energy Future (NICE Future), an international initiative of the Clean Energy Ministerial—which was founded by the United States, Canada and Japan and which now includes Argentina, Poland, Romania, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom—engages in global conversation on the roles nuclear energy can play in clean energy systems of the future. Rather than focus on specific technologies or issues, the group addresses nuclear energy holistically within the context of broader clean energy systems with the goal of moving nuclear energy from traditional, nuclear-only fora to broader, cross-sectoral discussions about clean energy at the ministerial and working levels in more countries. The operating agent of the NICE Future initiative is the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA) and its institutional affiliate, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which lead the NICE Future initiative and serve as the liaison to the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) Secretariat. NREL implements NICE Future initiative activities based on guidance from CEM, the United Nations, and our partners and stakeholders.

The Nuclear Alternative Project.  Puerto Rico has been an energy deficient country since Hurricane Maria struck two years ago. As technology and the climate changes, nuclear energy seems to have risen as a primary source to base their energy supply on. In response, the Department of Energy has granted The Nuclear Alternative projected the responsibility of prospecting Puerto Rico to possibly build advanced nuclear reactors. A member of the project team, Donald Hoffman said, “It’s our intent to showcase our advanced nuclear as an alternative energy option for Puerto Rico.” Unlike wind and solar, nuclear power plants hold up well in hurricanes. Puerto Rico’s clean energy future is soon to be heard as their report is due on December 18th. 

Nuclear Friends Foundation.  Nuclear Friends Foundation (NFF) is an initiative of the Indian government which aims to separate fact from fiction about nuclear energy. The group addresses common misunderstandings and presents nuclear energy as an “eco-friendly” mode of power generation. Nuclear Friends Foundation, presumably a non-profit organized under Indian law, writes in English with the objective of identifying untrue antinuclear propaganda and explaining the truth and “eye-opening” facts about nuclear and its myriad applications “helpful to mankind.”  The writing is less than perfect but the site is very comprehensive and discusses India’s nuclear aspirations to a certain extent.

Nuclear Innovation Alliance.  The world needs affordable, dispatchable, secure, low carbon energy that can scale up rapidly; nuclear power can uniquely meet that need. Nuclear energy development stalled late in the 20th Century due to political controversy, market factors, and project management failures, complicated by the scale and complexity of early nuclear technologies.  Now, advanced reactor concepts promise to lower risk and cost and reduce deployment barriers.  The challenge is to maintain and accelerate America’s nuclear innovation and to maintain the strategic and economic advantages of continued US leadership in this area.  The Nuclear Innovation Alliance has four strategic priorities that it is pursuing to maintain and enhance American nuclear innovation: 1 Provide a staged, and ultimately more technology-neutral licensing process based upon risk-informed principles.  2. Provide a test bed where nuclear innovators in the private sector can demonstrate advanced technologies. 3. Cooperation to provide for international commercial testing, demonstration, and deployment of advanced technologies. 4.  Financial support for early stage technology development and early commercial deployment.

Nuclear New York is an independent, non-partisan advocacy organization working towards a prosperous decarbonized future, nature conservation, and vibrant communities. The non-profit group conducts rigorous research, education, policy advocacy, and non-intrusive activism. Comprised of an extremely diverse membership with different political affiliations, economic theories, cultural backgrounds, and walks of life, Nuclear New York is united in advocating for evidence-based climate policies, conducting respectful dialogue with community groups, and building consensus with labor and capital.

In June 2022, Nuclear New York co-authored the policy brief Bright Future, a More Reliable and Responsible Climate Plan for New York with Clean Energy Jobs Coalition-NY, representing 270,000 skilled energy workers, and Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal, a nationwide advocacy effort articulating a vision to regain American industrial capabilities while creating dignified jobs in clean energy and manufacturing.

With its analysis, reporting, and testimony on the shuttering of the Indian Point nuclear power plant, Nuclear New York has become an authority on environmental, social, and economic impacts of premature nuclear closures.

The Progressive Policy Institute is a catalyst for policy innovation and political reform based in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to create radically pragmatic ideas for moving America beyond ideological and partisan deadlock. Founded in 1989, PPI started as the intellectual home of the New Democrats and earned a reputation as President Bill Clinton’s “idea mill.” Many of its mold-breaking ideas have been translated into public policy and law and have influenced international efforts to modernize progressive politics. Today, PPI is developing fresh proposals for stimulating U.S. economic innovation and growth; equipping all Americans with the skills and assets that social mobility in the knowledge economy requires; modernizing an overly bureaucratic and centralized public sector; and, defending liberal democracy in a dangerous world. PPI authored “Next-Gen Reactors: How Nuclear Innovation Can Support Growth and a Healthy Climate” in 2016.

Protect Orange County is a group that seeks to protect their air, water, wildlife and residents from the pollution created by the expansion of a massive gas plant and pipeline built and licensed by NYS despite a pattern of corruption by the parent company.  The group now asks that area residents tell Governor Cuomo and Health Commissioner Zucker to use their emergency powers to immediately halt operation of CPV, a 650 Megawatt fracked (natural gas) power plant built in 2018 in Orange County New York, 60 miles northwest of New York City. CPV is owned by Competitive Power Ventures, whose company executive, Peter Braith Kelly, was convicted of bribing a NYS aide close to Governor Cuomo, Joseph Percoco (also convicted). The bribery helped the project get approvals and get Cuomo to close the Indian Point nuclear power plant, in order to give CPV access to the NYS market, the second largest consumer of power in the world. Despite the convictions the bribery scheme was successful. CPV has now plugged NYC directly to the fracking fields in PA and forced the closure of half of Indian Point, causing the loss of more than 40% of downstate New York’s clean energy.  By May, 2021, the second half of the Indian Point plant will close as well, unless we can get CPV operation halted.

A new bill sponsored by State Senator Metzger would ban any project whose company executives are found guilty of corruption from being eligible to hold any state permits. We are supporting this bill and urge everyone to call Senate Majority Leader, Andrea Stewart Cousins, and Assembly Leader Carl Hastie to pass this bill and place it on Cuomo’s desk to sign. Please call all three and urge them to get this bill passed and signed. If CPV is not stopped, this will send a message to all corporate polluters that NY welcomes corruption.

Rethinking Nuclear is a group that seeks to help the public develop a clearer understanding of why nuclear is critical for addressing climate.  Launched by Margi Kindig, a retired attorney and life long environmentalist who changed her mind about nuclear power when she was a citizen representative on Wisconsin Governor Doyle’s Task Force on Global Warming, and Richard Steeves, a former Professor of Radiation Oncology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine, whose interest is reducing carbon dioxide emissions and the severity of future climate change, they collaborated with others to help provide the tools for others to gain knowledge quickly.  Convinced that nuclear power is absolutely essential to address climate change, and that objections from environmental organizations and many progressives were based on fear and misunderstanding, they sought a way to continue to expand access to the types of educational materials they both had been developing through independent activities.

Scientists for Accurate Radiation Information is a group whose mission is to monitor and counter nuclear/radiological misinformation that could adversely impact the world’s ability to effectively respond to nuclear and radiological challenges, to the end point of saving lives. To help prevent unnecessary, radiation-phobia-related deaths, morbidity, and injuries associated with distrust of radio-medical diagnostics/therapies and from nuclear/radiological emergencies through countering phobia-promoting misinformation (such as the LNT) spread by alarmists via the news and other media including journal publications.­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ For the world to effectively prepare for and respond to a radiological or nuclear emergency, it is important to have reliable information about risks to humans from both high and low level exposures to ionizing radiation and that the general response to the human body from high and low doses is different. Unfortunately, misinformation (such as the linear, no-threshold model (LNT)) about radiation effects on humans is prevalent in the news and other media, especially for low-level radiation exposure, as is currently the case for downwind populations of Fukushima. Misinformation, if not quickly detected and properly countered by reliable information in a timely manner, can lead to harm including the unintended loss of many lives as has been demonstrated after the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents. Our group is multidisciplinary and includes expertise in a variety of areas including radiation source characterization, radiation transport, external and internal radiation dosimetry, radiobiological effects (both harmful and beneficial), dose-response modeling, radiation risk and benefit assessment, nuclear medicine, diagnostic radiology, radiation oncology, commercial nuclear power, technology supporting use of nuclear power, isotope production, and nuclear/radiological emergency management.

Texas Recycles Used Nuclear Fuel is a group whose objectives and goals are similar to that of the Virginia-based group but which is working to enable the state of Texas to win the race to become the hub for reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, which contains  on average 95% fissible material and proportionally very litte that cannot be utilized commercially. Current laws in the United States direct nuclear waste to be stored in the Yucca Mountains in Nevada 900 feet below ground. With nuclear power being a crucial tool for combatting climate change for decades to come, the Texas Recycles Used Nuclear Fuel group envision and campaigns for a better long-term solution for handling waste. The program office would like the United States to model France: they have recycled nuclear waste for decades without a misstep.

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Third Way  Third Way is a national think tank that champions modern center-left ideas. Our work is grounded in the mainstream American values of opportunity, freedom, and security. But we identify as center-left, because we see that space in U.S. politics as offering the only real path for advancing those ideals in the century ahead. Our agenda is ambitious, aspirational, and actionable. It is built on the bedrock belief that for political movements to succeed in our political system, they must relentlessly re-imagine their policies, strategies, and coalitions. We are fighting for opportunity, so everyone has the chance to earn a good life; progress on social issues, so all have the freedom to live the lives they choose; and security, so we are protected from 21^st century global threats.

Union of Concerned Scientists  The Union of Concerned Scientists has finally taken a sharp pencil to the issue of climate change and realized that, if the the U.S. doesn’t protect its nuclear power, we will likely not meet our emissions reduction goals and climate change will spiral out of control.  They released a report called “The Nuclear Power Dilemma” with their findings about the state of nuclear power in the US and their recommendations on why and how best to keep these sources of clean energy operational.  As UCS President, Ken Kimmel, wrote in a separate blog post about the report, “These sobering realities dictate that we keep an open mind about all of the tools in the emissions reduction toolbox—even ones that are not our personal favorites. And that includes existing nuclear power plants in the United States, which currently supply about 20 percent of our total electricity needs and more than half of our low-carbon electricity supply.”

United Coalition for Advanced Nuclear Power  The United Coalition for Advanced Nuclear Power believes that the U.S. nuclear industry will lead the world in development, manufacturing, and deployment of advanced small/micro nuclear reactors providing safe, clean, and affordable energy and propulsion to meet global energy and environmental needs for terrestrial and space. UCAN Power plans to educate, promote, and advocate policies to accelerate the development and use of advanced S/MNRs to meet global electricity demands, space energy and propulsion requirements, and environmental and safety standards for government, military, and commercial applications.

US Nuclear Energy Foundation  The US Nuclear Energy Foundation works to educate the nation about nuclear technology our need for the Yucca Mountain Repository, Renewable Energy, Advanced Reactors and Above Ground Storage. Their overall mission is to renew the image of the nuclear industry and rebrand it as clean, responsible and safe energy. The US NEF holds meetings regularly, provides presentations at a wide range of conferences, organizes expert tour groups to the Idaho National Laboratory, and maintains a website with a considerable amount of nuclear information for public review.

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Virginia Program Office For Recycling & Disposition Of Used/Spent Nuclear Fuel Current laws in the United States direct nuclear waste to be stored in the Yucca Mountains in Nevada 900 feet below ground. With nuclear power being a crucial tool for combatting climate change for decades to come, the Virginia Program Office For Recycling & Disposition Of Used/Spent Nuclear Fuel envisions a better long-term solution for handling waste. The program office would like the United States to model France: they have recycled nuclear waste for decades without a misstep.  The group now has a sister site for Texas, called Texas Recycles Used Nuclear Fuel – whose objectives and goals are similar to that of the Virginia-based group, but specifically for Texas.

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World Resources Institute  WRI is a global research organization that spans more than 50 countries, with offices in the United States, China, India, Brazil, Indonesia and more. Our more than 700 experts and staff work closely with leaders to turn big ideas into action to sustain our natural resources—the foundation of economic opportunity and human well-being. Our work focuses on seven critical issues at the intersection of environment and development: climate, energy, food, forests, water, cities and the ocean.

There are an increasing number of organizations that are beginning to recognize that both pro-renewables and pro-nuclear groups must work together.  You do NOT need to be a pronuclear group to join this list. You just need to agree that we need all clean energy solutions—inclusive of nuclear—to confront the existential threat of climate change with everything we’ve got. If you would like your group added to this list, please let us know.  Include your group name, URL, and mission statement (specifically referencing your view on nuclears) in a message to us using our Contact Form and we will review your website and submission.