Office of Nuclear Energy
The Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) is an agency of the United States Department of Energy which promotes nuclear power as a resource capable of meeting the United States' energy, environmental, and national security needs by resolving technical and regulatory barriers through research, development, and demonstration.
The Office is led by the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy, who is appointed by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the United States Senate. The current acting Assistant Secretary is John Kotek.
The Office of Nuclear Energy is guided by the four research objectives detailed in its Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap:
The Office is under the general supervision of the Under Secretary of Energy for Energy and Environment. The Office is administered by the Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy (ASE-NE), who is appointed by the President of the United States. The current John Kotek, a former career employee of the Department of Energy, was nominated October 2, 2015, is the ASE-NE. Formally, Dr. Peter B. Lyons, who was appointed by President Barack Obama in April 2011, was the ASE-EN. The Assistant Secretary is assisted in running the Office by a politically appointed Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary and five career Deputy Assistant Secretaries. Each of the Deputy Assistant Secretaries oversee a different branch of the Office's work.
The Office of Nuclear Energy is landlord of the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). Located in southern Idaho along the western edge of the Eastern Snake River Plain, INL occupies 890 square miles (2,300 km2) of a remote desert about 42 miles (68 km) from Idaho Falls. INL was established in 1949 as the “National Reactor Testing Station” by the Atomic Energy Commission. INL is the location of the historic Experimental Breeder Reactor Number I (EBR-I), which was the first nuclear reactor to generate usable electrical power.
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