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Jun 22, 2010 |
Atlanta Journal Constitution, "We may be on the hook for more nuclear plants"
Peter Bradford, a member of NPEC's Board of Advisors, writes in the Atlanta Journal Constitution that the new loan guarantees created by Congress to support the construction of new nuclear plants in Georgia and elsewhere are likely to saddle taxpayers with large bills if the programs fail, but no one knows what the true cost will be because the Department of Energy has declined to release the criteria they are using to decide whether to grant the loans.
Op-Eds & Blogs
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Jun 02, 2010 |
Nuclear Power, Energy Markets, and Proliferation
In "Nuclear Power, Energy Markets, and Proliferation," an introduction to the forthcoming book, Nuclear Power’s Global Expansion: Weighing Its Cost and Risks, NPEC's executive director draws connections between nuclear power economics and proliferation.
For a more general overview of the relationship between nuclear power economics and the proliferation of nuclear weapons click here.
Working Papers
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May 29, 2010 |
National Review Online, "Obama's Backing of the NPT Final Declaration: Nonproliferation With a Vengence."
NPEC's executive director questions in a blog post for National Review Online if anyone but Iran benefited from the NPT final declaration.
Op-Eds & Blogs
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May 26, 2010 |
National Review Online: "Energy Pork: What Our Troops Are Fighting For?"
As the House prepares to vote on a War Supplemental Bill, NPEC's executive director writes on the National Review Online that a deal between the White House and the Congressional leadership has ensured a $19 billion serving of commercial energy pork is tucked away in its pages.
Op-Eds & Blogs
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May 06, 2010 |
Keeping U.S. International Nuclear Cooperation Peaceful
NPEC's executive director makes recommendations on how to revise the Atomic Energy Act for future agreements in his testimony, "Keeping U.S. International Nuclear Cooperation Peaceful". This testimony was made before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade on May 6, 2010, for coverage check out this dispatch from the Global Security Newswire.
Watch the video here or read the transcript here.
Testimony & Transcripts
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Apr 26, 2010 |
Council on Foreign Relations Publishes NPEC's Critique of America's Current Arms Control Strategy
The Council on Foreign Relations has released a report it commissioned NPEC's executive director to write, "Controlling the Further Spread of Nuclear Weapons", where he argues that the present U.S. approach to arms control over reaches, and that policymakers should include measures that can gain bipartisan support in Congress and do not rely on the legal consent of other states.
Articles
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Apr 22, 2010 |
The NPT's Untapped Potential to Prevent Proliferation
NPEC releases the introduction to its forthcoming book, "Reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty", which discusses the NPT's untapped potential to prevent proliferation, published by the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute.
Working Papers
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Apr 21, 2010 |
Foreign Affairs Committee Iterates NPEC Worries Regarding NPT Nuclear Energy Rights
In their opening statements before the HFAC's April 21, 2010 hearing (requires Realplayer) on the NPT, members Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Brad Sherman, and Ed Royce criticized, as NPEC long has, the view that the right to peaceful nuclear technology under the NPT affords members states to acquire nuclear technologies that can bring them to the brink of acquiring bombs.
Official Docs & Letters
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Apr 20, 2010 |
NPEC's Executive Director Testifies against Obama's Proposed Nuclear Loan Guarantees
In testimony before the House Domestic Policy Subcommittee April 20, 2010, NPEC's executive director concludes that federal loan guarantees for new nuclear power plants are a bad idea based on the findings contained in NPEC's two-year project, "Civilian Nuclear Energy in an Unstable, Carbon-Constrained World", he recommends relying more on the market to promote an optimal mix of energy types.
Testimony & Transcripts
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Apr 19, 2010 |
Testimony of Peter A. Bradford Before the Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission member and present NPEC advisory board member Peter Bradford testified before the House Subcommittee for Domestic Policy in a hearing on federal loan guarantees for nuclear power and argued that it represents a risky bet for tax payers that will likely to hurt rather than help efforts to combat climate change.
Testimony & Transcripts
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educational organization
founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues. NPEC educates
policymakers, journalists,
and university professors about proliferation threats and possible new policies and measures to meet them. |
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