My name is Alice Zhang.
I’m an intern at the Office of Nuclear Energy
and I am an incoming sophomore at Dartmouth
College.
Our project was basically conducting a feasibility
study for using nuclear energy to provide
clean water in water in energy stressed communities.
Obviously energy and water security is essential
for the continuation of communities and for
the thriving of these communities.
I think nuclear energy is a very safe and
reliable source of energy.
It’s also cheaper compared to many energy
sources that islanded communities have.
A lot of these communities rely on energy
sources such as diesel, which is very hard
to transport and you need a lot of it and
it’s more expensive than nuclear power.
I think that it’s a really great industry.
There’s a lot of benefits.
It can provide a great, clean source of baseload
power and I think it can serve as sort of
a segue into a clean energy future.
