DOE'S PONEMAN CALLS FOR NATIONAL NUCLEAR POLICY Deputy Secretary Says Strategy Needs to Integrate Weapons, Energy

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Emphasizing that commercial nuclear power can only take off worldwide with a successful nonproliferation strategy in place, Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman pushed for a comprehensive U.S. nuclear strategy in remarks at the third annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit earlier this week. "We need as a nation a nuclear policy that integrates all elements of our interests—domestic and international, deterrence and defense, energy and nonproliferation," Poneman said. "Most nations have settled on a coherent, focused approach to nuclear energy, and so must the United States if we are to compete successfully to be as significant to the world's nuclear future as we have been in the world's nuclear past,"