FRONTIERS PROJECT MEETING: BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA - The Atlantic Council—in partnership with the Idaho National Laboratory and Louisiana State University—is pleased to host the Frontiers Project Meeting.

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 role advanced nuclear energy technologies can play in Louisiana’s manufacturing sector as the state expands its economic production and secures US leadership in the new frontier of global economic competition.

ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 03/28/2025