Publications: Commentary

The hot air machine at the Glasgow climate conference has mercifully been shut off after running on overdrive for two weeks. In its wake one of the quietest but most significant achievements was the elevation of the nuclear-climate nexus. The challenge in this victory is to quickly and effectively pivot from the prior quest for…

China apparently didn’t want to contribute to the excessive hot air being emitted at the Glasgow climate COP, so it’s leaders skipped out. Instead it is preparing to spend up to $440 billion building 150 new nuclear reactors to achieve its goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2060. By contrast, the U.S. sent the president and 13 high-level…

The intensifying global energy crisis has generated a clean energy stress test that is uncovering serious flaws in renewables-centric strategies. An interesting impact of this crisis of rising energy prices and faltering renewable output is the reversal in some nations’ thinking on the role of nuclear power as a zero-carbon energy backbone. There clearly is…

The surprise new security pact between Australia, Britain, and America (AUKUS) is a geopolitical game changer in part because it starkly features the provision of advanced technology as a critical component of curbing China’s growing global influence. This approach copies a core of China’s strategy for capturing nations through long-term economic ensnarement and augments it…