[4] Heard sits on the Independent Advisory Panel which informs the planned establishment of a national radioactive waste management facility in Australia as a member of the socio-economic sub group.
[5] In November 2015, Heard was appointed to the International Advisory Board of Terrestrial Energy, a company developing molten salt nuclear reactor technology.
[6] Heard's blog Decarbonise SA was succeeded in November 2016 by the launch of Australia's first pro-nuclear environmental not-for-profit organisation: Bright New World.
Heard has co-authored articles with pro-nuclear environmental scientists Barry Brook and Corey Bradshaw,[3] and presented alongside them at public and institutional events.
On 29 April 2011, Heard gave a presentation at the annual Local Government Association of South Australia conference entitled Nuclear power - from opponent to proponent.
[15] Later that year, Heard traveled to Perth as a guest of uranium mining company Toro Energy to speak at an event hosted by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA).
In 2015, Heard's discussion paper was submitted as part of the Economic Development Board's formal submission to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission.
The Minerals Council of Australia claimed that SMRs could be connected to existing grid infrastructure, used to power regions or remote mining operations if "outdated" bans on use of nuclear energy by State and Federal legislation were repealed.