Nuclear Energy Workshops

New Thinking on Nuclear Governance: US and ROK Future Directions October 11, 2012 The current deadlock between the US and South Korea over renegotiation of their 123 Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement lies in the thorny subject of enrichment and...

Waste Confidence: What Next for the US? September 12, 2012 In response to a 1977 NRDC lawsuit challenging the basis of licensing reactors, the NRC issued the original Waste Confidence Rule in 1984, essentially expressing assurance that safe disposal of spent...

Future of Nuclear Power and Renewable Energy in the US August 29, 2012 There is widespread recognition that the current pace of fossil fuel usage will necessarily lead to climate change and other deleterious global effects. Within the US, market forces have...

The Problem of Public Acceptance for the Global Nuclear Industry August 09, 2012 The need to engage and educate the public about nuclear energy and its associated benefits and risks has always been a vital task for the nuclear industry, and is even more so...

Computer Modeling of Radioactivity Releases in a Nuclear Accident: Lessons and Implications July 12, 2012 Computer modeling is utilized to evaluate the risks of radiation releases from nuclear plants in various ways: estimating the general probability and...

Closing the Fuel Cycle in Asia: The Security Implications June 06, 2012 While the merits of closing the nuclear fuel cycle are normally debated in technical and economic terms, security issues are often set aside as secondary concerns in such discussions....