NUCLEAR ISSUES
Department of Energy
July 18, 2008
"'Appropriate Effective' Nuclear Security and Accounting: What is It?"
Presentation
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Project on Managing the Atom's Matthew Bunn discusses United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540—a major new tool for combating nuclear terrorism and proliferation that is little used.
May 5-6, 2008
"Safety, Security, Safeguards: Enabling Nuclear Energy Growth"
Presentation
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Matthew Bunn presented "Safety, Security, Safeguards: Enabling Nuclear Energy Growth" to the Global Nuclear Future Workshop at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Cambridge, Mass.
Clark~
March 13, 2008
"Expanding Nuclear Energy, Preventing Nuclear Terrorism"
Presentation
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Matthew Bunn presented "Expanding Nuclear Energy, Preventing Nuclear Terrorism" to the Energy & Security Search Seminar on March 13, 2008.
February 29, 2008
"Allocation of Risk in Building Capital-Intensive Electricity Generation: What Role for Government?"
Presentation
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Matthew Bunn presented "Allocation of Risk in Building Capital-Intensive Electricity Generation: What Role for Government?" to the Harvard Electricity Policy Group, in Boulder, Colorado.
February 22, 2008
"What Do We Mean by Zero? Strategic Implications of Different Approaches to the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons"
Presentation
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Matthew Bunn presented "What Do We Mean by Zero? Strategic Implications of Different Approaches to the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons," at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization conference on "Nuclear Weapons: The Greatest Peril to Civilization," in New Haven, Conn on February 21-22, 2008.
February 1, 2008
"Key Factors Affecting the Future of Nuclear Energy"
Presentation
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Matthew Bunn discussed the key factors affecting the future of nuclear energy for the first meeting of the Belfer Center Working Group on the Future of Nuclear Energy on February 1, 2008.
Dr. Mohammad Saeidi
November 15, 2007
"Constraining Iran's Nuclear Program: Assessing Options and Risks"
Presentation
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Matthew Bunn presented "Constraining Iran's Nuclear Program: Assessing Options and Risks" to staff members at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on November 15, 2007. He argues, it is time to begin thinking seriously about what the least dangerous options involving some centrifuges in Iran might be, and explores the risks and advantages of an option involving 1-4 cascades with international ownership and a 24/7 international staff for all centrifuge activities.
DOE
May 30-31, 2007
"Setting Priorities: Assessing the Global Risk of Nuclear Theft"
Presentation
By Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom
Matthew Bunn presented "Setting Priorities: Assessing the Global Risk of Nuclear Theft" at a Workshop on Nuclear Security Risk Management, Institute for Nuclear Materials Management.
February 2, 2007
"Moonshine, Manhattan, Maud, Monte Bello: British Scientists and Nuclear Policy"
Presentation
By Andrew Brown, Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
After reviewing the advances in nuclear physics made at Rutherford's Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, Brown examined the profound influence that British scientists had on the inception of the Manhattan project, especially through the Frisch-Peierls Memorandum and the Maud Report. During the 18 month hiatus between these two documents, the concept of an atomic bomb changed from a weapon of deterrence into an offensive war-winning weapon. After 1945, various Anglo-American agreements were vitiated, and the British secretly started work on an independent weapon project (at a time of extreme economic hardship and food rationing). Brown contrasted the roles of leading scientists on opposite sides of this debate — James Chadwick as a trusted government adviser and Patrick Blackett as an early critic of nuclear weapons.
April 3, 2006
"Tariff-based incentives for improving power plant efficiency"
Presentation
By Ananth Chikkatur, Former Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group and Ambuj D. Sagar, Associate, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
