Events

The Atlantic Council—in partnership with the Idaho National Laboratory and Louisiana State University—is pleased to host the Frontiers Project Meeting on Friday, March 28th, 2025. The Frontiers Project Meeting will take place at the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center, Louisiana.

The State of Louisiana provides a substantial foundation for domestic chemical and fuel production. Louisiana accounts for about 36 percent of US chemical manufacturing, about 17 percent of US refined fuels, and over 60 percent of US liquefied natural gas exports. Louisiana is also becoming a major development home for advanced data centers. Louisiana’s energy-intensive industrial base, its infrastructure, and its workforce play a major role in the economic security of the United States; as Louisiana’s economy goes, so goes the security of the United States, and energy is central to this industrial reality.

Providing energy in this key industrial state is of particular concern as significantly greater quantities of heat and electricity are needed while the security, reliability, affordability, and emissions characteristics of that energy increasingly matter. As such, Louisiana is at the forefront of a national and global race for innovation in energy generation and delivery. This new global frontier of energy innovation is driving a new frontier in global economic competition; a competition the United States must win, and Louisiana can lead.

The Louisiana Frontiers Project Meeting will look at the potential for advanced nuclear energy technologies to play a role in Louisiana’s manufacturing sector as Louisiana expands its economic production and secures United States leadership in the new frontier of global economic competition.

The Frontiers Project Meeting will address Utah’s potential as a first-mover state into advanced nuclear technologies, especially for off-grid applications such as data centers, military installations, and mining.

The Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center, Anchorage, Alaska

The Frontiers Project Meeting looks at Alaska’s potential to become a first-mover state in advanced nuclear and at how Alaska can meet increased global demand for low-emissions manufacturing.

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Presented by the Fastest Path to Zero Initiative at the University of Michigan and the Center for Research on Nuclear Decommissioning at Tohoku University.

Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center, Reykjavík, Iceland

The Arctic Circle Assembly is the largest annual international gathering on the Arctic, attended by more than 2000 participants from over 60 countries.

The annual Assembly is attended by heads of states and governments, ministers, members of parliaments, indigenous leadership and representatives, officials, experts, scientists, entrepreneurs, business leaders, environmentalists, students, activists and others from the growing international community of partners and participants interested in the Arctic.