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Korsnick on mission to rekindle support for nuclear energy

CEO of Nuclear Energy Institute is chief advocate for industry struggling to maintain stature as one of nation's leading power sources Korsnick Maria Korsnick earned a bachelor's degree in nuclear engineering in 1986, the same year as the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Now CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute, she acknowledges some people would have switched careers at that point, but not her. "I fell in love, quite frankly, with nuclear energy—the value that it brings, the amount of energy you can get from a small amount of material," Korsnick told CEO Update. "If you think about being kind to the environment and using our resources wisely, nuclear energy comes right to the… Read More