What is the relationship between the economics of nuclear power and the proliferation of nuclear weapons? When security and arms control analysts list what has helped keep nuclear weapons technologies from spreading further than they already have, energy economics are rarely, if ever, mentioned. Yet, large civilian nuclear energy programs bring states quite a way towards developing nuclear weapons and it has been the poor economics of nuclear energy, more than any other force, which has hampered most states’ adoption of such projects.
NPEC releases “Nuclear Power as Taxpayer Patronage: A Case Study of Subsidies to Calvert Cliffs Unit 3”. Doug Koplow is the founder of Earth Track, an organization focused on comprehensive and accurate information on government interventions in energy markets. Jul 09, 2009 AUTHOR: Doug Koplow […]
NPEC releases “The Costs and Benefits of Reprocessing: Why Reprocessing Persists in Some Countries and Not in Others”, a study by Frank von Hippel. Dr. von Hippel is a professor at Princeton’s W Excerpt: Since 1974, when India tested a nuclear bomb made with plutonium […]
Sharon Squassoni is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace focusing on nuclear nonproliferation and national security. Mar 25, 2009 AUTHOR: Sharon Squassoni Nuclear Power-How Much More (PDF) 2,073.13 KB Nuclear Power: How Much More? Enthusiasm for nuclear energy has surged in […]
Steve Kidd is Director of Strategy & Research at the World Nuclear Association, where he has worked since 1995 (when it was the Uranium Institute). Mar 14, 2009 AUTHOR: Steve Kidd Nuclear Fuel-Myths and Realities-DRAFT (PDF) 437.11 KB Nuclear Fuel – Myths and Realities The […]
Mr. Thomas is professor of energy policy at the Public Services International Research Unit at the University of Greenwich, London, Jan 05, 2009 AUTHOR: Steven Thomas The Financial Crisis and Nuclear Power (PDF) 151.25 KB The financial crisis and nuclear power Introduction Since the decline […]
AUTHOR: Mycle Schneider Mycle Schneider releases “Nuclear Power in France: Beyond the Myth” This study was commissioned by the Greens-European Free Alliance Group in the European Parliament. Mr. Schneider, an independent consultant on energy and nuclear policy, made a presentation pertaining to this topic, titled […]
Irwin Stelzer is a Senior Fellow and Director of Economic Policy Studies for the Hudson Institute.This white paper is also available on Hudson Institute’s website. Aug 30, 2008 AUTHOR: Irwin Stelzer Energy Policy-Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here (PDF) 1,233.43 KB
Mr. Smith is director of GMS Abingdon, Ltd May 12, 2008 AUTHOR: Graham Smith Cost Comparison of Spent Fuel Storage and Deep Geological Disposal (PDF) 348.13 KB Cost Comparison of Spent Fuel Storage and Deep Geological Disposal A paper prepared for the Nonproliferation Policy Education […]
Mr. Bradford, who served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under Carter and Reagan, is an adjunct professor at Vermont Law School. Apr 06, 2008 AUTHOR: Peter A. Bradford Taxpayer Financing for Nuclear Power-Precedents and Consequences (PDF) 92.76 KB Taxpayer Financing for Nuclear Power: Precedents and […]
Dr. Thomas is a professor at Greenwich University. NPEC commissioned this draft study as a part of the center”s project, Civilian Nuclear Energy in an Unstable, Carbon Constrained World Mar 09, 2008 AUTHOR: Steven Thomas 20080310-Thomas-NuclearSubsidies_020211_0605
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