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Jessica Lovering is an American engineer, researcher and advocate for nuclear power. She has worked at a number of public policy organizations, researching nuclear power and promoting increased adoption of the technology as a means to mitigate climate change.
Lovering earned a B.A. in astrophysics from the University of California, Berkeley and M.S. degrees in environmental studies and in astrophysical and planetary sciences from the University of Colorado, Boulder. [1] At Berkeley, she was part of the Deep Ecliptic Survey team which discovered minor planet 54598 Bienor. [2]
In 2020 she completed a Ph.D. in engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University. [1] Her thesis, entitled "Evaluating changing paradigms across the nuclear industry", investigated the shift towards smaller, commodity, nuclear reactors from non-American exporters, and the related implications for global security. [3]
Lovering joined the Breakthrough Institute in 2012 to work on nuclear energy policy and later became the director of its energy program. [4] [5] Her 2016 paper, "Historical construction costs of global nuclear power reactors" (with Arthur Yip and Ted Nordhaus), argued that construction costs of nuclear power plants had escalated more moderately than previously reported, and provoked rebuttals from Jonathan Koomey and Benjamin K. Sovacool, among others. [6] She presents her advocacy of nuclear power as an environmental justice issue, [7] also advocated for nuclear power at a debate with Mark Jacobson at an event presented by The Steamboat Institute at Colorado Mesa University. [8]
In 2020 she cofounded the Good Energy Collective in an effort to align nuclear advocacy with progressive and environmentalist ideals. [9] [10]
In 2016 Lovering was a speaker at Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp at the University of California, Berkeley, [11] and in 2025 she became a senior fellow at the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, an American think tank. [1] . Her written work has featured in various publications, including journals Issues in Science and Technology, Science and Public Policy, Foreign Affairs and Energy Policy. [12] Websites featuring her work include various nuclear energy blogs and EnergyPost.eu. [13] She has worked as a researcher on the documentary film Pandora's Promise and appeared in the TV series Abandoned. [14]
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