POLICY BRIEFINGS, TESTIMONY & PRESENTATIONS
September 4, 2012
"Living Sustainable Development: Opportunities for Planets, Places and People"
By William Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy, and Human Development; Co-director, Sustainability Science Program; Faculty Chair, ENRP
On April 23, 2012, Harvard Kennedy School professor William Clark, a leading scholar on sustainable development, spoke to HKS faculty and staff about “Living Sustainable Development: Opportunities for Planets, Places and People.” Clark’s presentation not only conveys the big picture of sustainable development challenges and policy choices that affect the whole planet -- it also brings the issues down to the level of personal decisions that can make a difference.
March 22, 2012
China’s Plutonium Recycling: Policy Considerations
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
A presentation to the International Symposium on Nuclear Security and the Korean Peninsula on the policy considerations of China's plutonium recycling plans.
March 22, 2012
"The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime Challenged"
By Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Presentation by Olli Heinonen at the Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference, March 20, 2012, in Busan, South Korea, in advance of the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul on March 26-27, 2012.
March 18-23, 2012
Rethinking Chinese Policy on Commercial Reprocessing
By Hui Zhang, Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
This paper will discuss the status of China’s nuclear power reactors, breeders, and civilian reprocessing programs. In addition, this paper will examine whether the breeders and civilian reprocessing programs make sense for China, taking into account costs, proliferation risks, energy security tradeoffs, health and environmental risks, and spent fuel management issues.
March 12, 2012
Nuclear Security Summit Dossier
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Matthew Bunn's introduction to the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit.
March 12, 2012
The Nuclear Security Summit Dossier
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
A briefing on the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit given at the U.S. Institute of Peace, March 12, 2012, as part of the release of the Belfer Center's Nuclear Security Summit Dossier.
AP Photo
March 2, 2012
"Controlling the 'Absolute Weapon': Delegation, Legitimacy, and Authority at the IAEA"
By Robert L. Brown, Former Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom, 2011–2012
This seminar argued that the persistent demand for International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) services has resulted in a routinization of international delegation of autonomy and capacity to the IAEA, transforming it from super-power pawn to a multinational forum and now into an agency of global governance—an international nuclear authority.
March 6, 2012
"North Korean Nuclear Program in Transition"
By Olli Heinonen, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
A slide presentation by Belfer Center Senior Fellow Olli Heinonen on March 6, 2012, assessing North Korea's nuclear program. Heinonen made the presentation to a seminar of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School.
Bret Arnett, CC licensed
March 5, 2012
China’s Nuclear Energy Industry, One Year After Fukushima
By Yun Zhou, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
It has been one year since the disastrous nuclear accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011. Experts now view Fukushima as the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986.
In the aftermath, the Chinese government promptly reaffirmed that nation’s nuclear energy policy. Yet China also became the only nation among all major nuclear energy states that suspended its new nuclear plant project approvals. Before it would restart approvals, China said it would:
1) Conduct safety inspections at all nuclear facilities
2) Strengthen the approval process of new nuclear plant projects
3) Enact a new national nuclear safety plan
4) Adjust the medium and long-term development plan for nuclear power
Where is China on this path, and what is the future of its nuclear power industry?
March 1, 2012
China’s Nuclear Power Industry after Fukushima and China's Nuclear Safety Practices
By Yun Zhou, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
MTA/ISP Fellow Yun Zhou's presentation to the American Physics Society on safety in the Chinese nuclear industry
