U.S. Needs New Nuclear Plants to Retain Expertise, Browner Says

Carol Browner, who resigned as the White House’s top adviser on climate change last year, said the U.S. needs to build new nuclear power plants to retain the technical knowledge.

“I’m concerned that if we don’t build new nuclear plants we’ll lose the engineers, scientists and construction workers with the know-how,” Browner said today in an interview at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit in New York.