Bradford Seminar: “Small Modular Reactors and Other Nuclear Fantasies”

M. V. Ramana, Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and professor at the school of public policy and global affairs at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, will present “Small Modular Reactors and Other Nuclear Fantasies.” This seminar will be held in-person (PUID holders only) and available via livestream (open to all).

Ramana was earlier with the Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University. He is the author of “The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India” (Penguin Books, 2012), co‑editor of “Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream” (Orient Longman, 2003) and the author of “Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change” (forthcoming from Verso books). He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), the International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group (INRAG), the Canadian Pugwash Group, and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leo Szilard Award from the American Physical Society

This event is part of the David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series organized by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI).

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Bradford Seminar: “Small Modular Reactors and Other Nuclear Fantasies”

Event Date

Mon, Feb 5, 2024 ・ 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Location

300 Wallace Hall; Online via Media Central Live

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M. V. Ramana, Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and professor at the school of public policy and global affairs at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, will present “Small Modular Reactors and Other Nuclear Fantasies.” This seminar will be held in-person (PUID holders only) and available via livestream (open to all).

Ramana was earlier with the Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University. He is the author of “The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India” (Penguin Books, 2012), co‑editor of “Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream” (Orient Longman, 2003) and the author of “Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change” (forthcoming from Verso books). He is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials (IPFM), the International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group (INRAG), the Canadian Pugwash Group, and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leo Szilard Award from the American Physical Society

This event is part of the David Bradford Energy and Environmental Policy Seminar Series organized by the Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment (C-PREE) in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and co-sponsored by the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI).