Research Impacts on Social Equity and Economic Empowerment (RISE3)
Goal
Provide expert resources and create a blueprint for countries transitioning to a clean and just energy economy with nuclear innovation as a key pillar.
RISE3 is building a first-ever partnership amongst governments and the nuclear energy, renewables, non-profit and academic communities to accelerate the adoption of environmentally just, clean energy solutions. Leveraging the insights and expertise of more than thirty participant countries and partner organizations, RISE3 aims to highlight breakthrough solutions and provide support that can accelerate movement toward net-zero.
RISE3 will convene expert resources supporting analyses to inform investment decisions and create a blueprint for countries transitioning to a clean and just energy economy with nuclear innovation as a key pillar. The campaign will also focus on recommending actions that can generate jobs and improve quality of life in communities.
The Opportunity
RISE3 is building a first-ever partnership amongst governments and the nuclear energy, renewables, non-profit and academic communities to accelerate the adoption of environmentally just, clean energy solutions. Leveraging the insights and expertise of more than thirty participant countries and partner organizations, RISE3 aims to highlight breakthrough solutions that can accelerate movement toward net-zero.
Why it’s needed
RISE3 activities will provide local solutions to uplift quality of life for communities around the world with nuclear innovation.
Key activities include:
1. Recommending how nuclear technologies can advance environmental justice and equity.
2. Publishing analyses detailing how nuclear energy can complement and advance renewables through coupling and flexible operation in integrated clean energy systems.
3. Examining how flexible utilization of nuclear energy for electric and nonelectric applications can lift economies and improve quality of life for communities and nations, including remote, off-grid, or islanded communities.
4. Tracking community transformations, including monitoring how potential coal site conversions to nuclear and/or renewables may yield economic and jobs impacts.
Community
Co-leads
Coordinator
Partners
Fastest Path to Zero (University of Michigan)
Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN)
Good Energy Collective
International Atomic Energy Agency
Idaho National Laboratory
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
North American Youth Generation in Nuclear
TerraPraxis
Third Way
Join Us
Nice-Future@nrel.gov