Publications

The Role of Nuclear Energy in the New Cold War

A longer version of this article was published by the Center for the National Interest and it can be found here. The United States is at the front end of a new Cold War, but this time the critical role of atom splitting has been transmuted. Rather than relying on nuclear fission to deliver security in the form…
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Are Nuclear Energy Expansion Critics Correct?

A longer version of this article will be published soon by The Center for the National Interest and it can be found here. In the sea of enthusiasm for the global expansion of commercial nuclear power, there are modern day Nostradamus’ confidently predicting failure. “Most SMRs are on paper […] These are fun ideas. But the tech…
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Reframing Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Policy

A longer version of this article was published by the Center for the National Interest and it can be found here. For decades, a third rail of US nuclear power policy has been reprocessing spent fuel and extracting the plutonium. The country has alternately supported and suspended reprocessing over the past decades, and now the pendulum seems to…
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