PROJECT 2025 –  #23 – August 6, 2024 - Department of Energy 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Underlining Assumptions:
American energy crisis are based on “green” policies.
Repeal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
Repeal Inflation Reduction Act
Refocus DOE on energy security and advanced science.
End government interference in energy decisions, including nuclear.

Restore Manhattan Project and Cold War nuclear sites to develop new nuclear weapons and naval reactors

Create nuclear waste disposal policies

Eliminate political and climate-change interference in liquified natural gas exports

review all federal science agencies to measure, prioritize, and consolidate DOE programs based on national security; energy security (cyber but also international aspects); and importance to scientific discovery/advancement. 

Fund design, development, deployment of new nuclear warheads and production of plutonium

Focus on energy grid reliability but eliminate testing of grid-enhancing technologies

Reduce regulatory obstacles to nuclear energy
 
Eliminate carbon capture and storage

 Pursue critical minerals from coal waste products

End focus on climate change and green subsidies

Eliminate energy efficiency standards for appliances

Eliminate Grid Deployment Office which studies the electric grid to address congestion, enhance reliability and promote clean energy.

eliminate ARPA-E – which brings technology from idea to commercialization

 eliminate clean energy corps

stop climate reparations

Commit to US science dominance in new natural resource development technologies, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and space are properly contributed to private sector

 Reject ratification of Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, indicate a willingness to conduct nuclear tests in response to adversary nuclear developments 

Limit decision-making on natural gas pipeline certificates to the question of whether there is a need for the natural gas. 

Should not use environmental issues like climate change as a reason to stop LNG projects. 

Expedite the review and approval of license extensions of existing reactors

Set clear radiation exposure and protection standards by eliminating ALARA (“as low as reasonably achievable”) as a regulatory principle and setting clear standards according to radiological risk and dose rather than arbitrary objectives. 

Next up - Environmental Protection Agency