EnergySource
																
							Sep 28, 2021
				 
				The VTR will play a key role in the nuclear energy innovation ecosystem
							
																			By 
																Suzanne Baker, Jennifer T. Gordon, Judi Greenwald, and Jackie Toth												
		
				
					Next-generation nuclear technologies hold the potential to bring US-led zero-carbon energy to international markets. But their development will be stymied without government support for the Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), whose budget was recently zeroed out. Congress still has opportunities to provide sufficient funding, and it must act on them.