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Enabling a Nuclear Revival — And Managing its Risks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2009)
Matthew Bunn and Martin B. Malin examine the conditions needed for nuclear energy to grow on a scale large enough for it to be a significant part of the world’s response to climate change. They consider the safety, security, ...
International Workshop on Research, Development, and Demonstration to Enhance the Role of Nuclear Energy in Meeting Climate and Energy Challenges
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, 2011)
Dramatic growth in nuclear energy would be required for nuclear power to provide a significant part of the carbon-free energy the world is likely to need in the 21st century, or a major part in meeting other energy challenges. ...
Securing Nuclear Stockpiles: The First Line of Defense in Preventing Nuclear Terrorism
(The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 2009)
Preventing the Next Fukushima
(AAAS, 2011)
While this year's disaster at Japan's Fukushima Dai'ichi plant, the worst since Chernobyl in 1986, was caused by the one-two punch of a huge earthquake followed by an immense tsunami—a disaster unlikely to occur in many ...
Reducing Nuclear Dangers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)
Ron Rosenbaum wants us to be worried. His book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III is intended as an urgent warning that the terrifying dangers of nuclear weapons did not disappear when the Cold War ...
The U.S.-Russia Joint Threat Assessment of Nuclear Terrorism
(Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, and Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies., 2011)
Nuclear terrorism is a real and urgent threat. Given the potentially catastrophic consequences, even a small probability of terrorists getting and detonating a nuclear bomb is enough to justify urgent action to reduce the ...