E4 Carolinas will organize and manage a comprehensive research and planning project within the five-state area consisting of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia to prepare and position the Southeast for advanced nuclear technology leadership. The successful outcome of this plan will be the:
This project will develop a plan for implementing a strategy to diversify the region’s economy through a public-private partnership that creates high-quality jobs; creates resiliency; attracts investment in an existing and evolving industry, and by which the region may respond to the economic disruption experienced by the cancellation of certain significant nuclear construction projects as a result of coronavirus Pandemic. Through this plan, the Economic Development Districts in these states may identify the training and infrastructure necessary to support advanced nuclear technology development in their District.
Contact Ally Barbier, E4 Carolinas’ Project Analyst, to become part of the Industrial Advisory Council or Faculty Advisory Council supporting the project.
Please contact Dr. Lukas Brun, E4 Carolinas’ Managing Director of Research and Economic Development, for additional information about our grant-funded research projects.