The Trump administration is likely to be bullish on nuclear energy, viewing it as a tool to unleash US energy dominance, according to Jennifer Gordon, director for the nuclear energy policy Initiative at the Atlantic Council thinktank’s Global Energy Center.

Gordon said in a post on the council’s website that Trump will most likely wish to compete in the global market against Russian and Chinese civil nuclear exports, and the new administration will probably wish to meet demand from like-minded countries for US nuclear energy technologies, including large light-water reactors and next generation technologies such as small modular reactors and microreactors.