Idaho Gov. Brad Little speaks at the Western Governors' Association's Energy Superabundance conference Monday at Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls. (Clark Corbin/Idaho Capital Sun)

IDAHO FALLS – Saying America cannot meet its energy needs without nuclear energy, Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Monday created a new task force to advance nuclear energy.

Little signed an executive order creating the Idaho Advanced Nuclear Energy Task Force while he was attending the Energy Superabundance conference at Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls.

“The world is changing rapidly,” Little said Monday. “Energy demand is expected to increase by an unprecedented 30% in the near future. We cannot do that with our legacy energy. We are going to have to have scalable, safe nuclear energy.”

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