Our Work
Our work is organized around two interconnected impact themes addressing distinct barriers to responsible nuclear deployment.
Local Siting and Community Engagement
Nuclear projects too often fail not because of technical challenges but because community opposition rooted in legitimate concerns goes unaddressed. By developing evidence-based frameworks that center local voices, we're transforming how the nuclear sector approaches community engagement.
Market Development and Vulnerabilities
The global commitment to triple nuclear capacity by 2050 has generated unmistakable momentum for the sector. But this momentum — driven by high-profile investments and policy wins — obscures underlying vulnerabilities. GEC focuses on these kinds of underexamined constraints — those that are easy to overlook but costly to ignore.
Local Siting and Community Engagement
We improve nuclear siting and permitting by integrating community partnership, rigorous social science, and policy reform. We support communities navigating complex processes, build baseline evidence on what effective engagement achieves, and translate those insights into state and federal reforms that strengthen public participation and enable responsible nuclear deployment.
Foster effective community engagement
Directly support communities throughout siting and permitting lifecycles
Rigorous, large-scale social science to establish essential — and hitherto missing — measures of efficacy
We assess near-, mid-, and long-term workforce readiness and road-mapping strategies to close the gaps
Reform federal & state permitting processes
Policy proposals to revise the scope of public participation in federal and state regulations
- New nuclear development
- Geothermal demonstrations
- Fossil fuel transitions
To power AI energy needs, nuclear is going to have a comeback
- Community engagement efficacy measurement, learning, and evaluation
- Quasi-experimental community engagement impact studies
Opportunities for Coal Communities Through Nuclear Energy: An Early Look
Market Development
We prepare themarket for responsible nuclear deployment by addressing the supply chain, industrial, and policy constraints that can stall progress as the sector scales. We develop forward-looking intelligence on global nuclear supplychains, build research-backed policy roadmaps to strengthen domestic workforce capacities and value chains, and advance targeted reforms that improve federal coordination, state-level market readiness, and innovation policy — ensuring nuclear growth is resilient, strategic, and durable.
Map global nuclear supply chains
State-of-the-art models identifying bottlenecks before they become deployment barriers
Proactive policy interventions to address structural vulnerabilities
Rigorous, large-scale social science to establish essential — and hitherto missing — measures of efficacy
Close mid- and long-run critical workforce gaps
Identify domestic value-chain gaps requiring targeted investment or friend-shoring
Improve coordination among federal nuclear offices during scaleup
Advance nuclear innovation & market-readiness
Identify headwinds in power markets, commercial models, and regulation — resolve avoidable pitfalls early
Align innovation support and non-hardware cost reduction with nuclear's unique requirements
- Nuclear Project Economics: Tax Credits, PFE Exposure, and Domestic Content
- Modeling Global Nuclear Supply Chain Sensitivity and Bottlenecks
- Building a Coordinated Industrial Strategy
Issue Brief Update: Economic Impact of Senate Finance Committee Text—45Y Restrictions on Nuclear Energy Projects
- National Baseline Assessment of the Nuclear Workforce
- Forecasting Mid-Term Workforce Gaps
- Mapping Nuclear Certifications and Occupational Requirements
The Clean Energy Transition May Require Working with Industrial Titans
- Tracking State Nuclear Policy
- Developable Land at Existing Nuclear Sites
- State Level Siting and Permitting
Policy Impact Report: Economic Impact of H.R.1 Tax Credit Restrictions on Nuclear Energy Projects
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Good Energy Collective is a policy research organization focused on the role of nuclear energy in an equitable clean energy transition. We conduct rigorous, independent research to understand the barriers to responsible nuclear deployment and to develop evidence-based solutions.