Former head of the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy says news of the Biden administration’s consideration of production tax credits to keep nuclear plants afloat would give nuclear equivalent footing with wind and solar producers. Baranwal, now chief nuclear officer at the Electric Power Research Institute, believes her former office’s policy priorities will persist under the Biden administration. In the 18 months that Dr. Rita Baranwal led the Department of Energy’s nuclear division, three U.S. reactors shut down and a fourth — Indian Point in New York — was months away from sunsetting, a continuation of a yearslong trend for the industry that has struggled with market viability despite its carbon emissions-free bona fides.