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Nuclear Power Economics |
What is the relationship between the economics of nuclear power and the proliferation of nuclear weapons? When security and arms control analysts list what has helped keep nuclear weapons technologies from spreading further than they already have, energy economics are rarely, if ever, mentioned. Yet, large civilian nuclear energy programs bring states quite a way towards developing nuclear weapons and it has been energy economics, more than any other force, which has hampered most states’ plans to develop such projects. read more |
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May 02, 2013 |
Kenneth Medlock: Strategic Implications of the Natural Gas Revolution
Presentation given at a May 2, 2013 dinner seminar, co-organized by NPEC and the American Enterprise Institute, by Dr. Kenneth Medlock of Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
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Apr 26, 2013 |
The Hill Posts Op-Ed by NPEC and Taxpayers for Common Sense, "Held up by MOX(y)"
An April 26, 2013 op-ed in The Hill by NPEC's executive director and Autumn Hanna, Senior Program Director at Taxpayers for Common Sense, examines objections to President Obama’s cut to a nuclear project sited at Savannah River designed to convert 34 tons of nuclear weapon-grade plutonium into civilian reactor fuel.
Op-Eds & Blogs
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Sep 24, 2012 |
Michael Canes: Economics of Military Energy Use
Presentation given at NPEC's September dinner seminar by Dr. Michael Canes, a Distinguished Fellow at the Logistics Management Institute (LMI).
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Sep 12, 2012 |
Henry Sokolski & Autumn Hanna in the NRO: "Yet More Solyndras"
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Jun 25, 2012 |
National Security and U.S. Domestic Uranium Enrichment Requirements
At a time when Congress is weighing making drastic cuts in US defense spending, our government is financially propping up domestic commercial uranium enrichment capacity with direct appropriations and possible loan guarantees. One such case in controversy is the United States Enrichment Corporation’s American Centrifuge Project.
The key arguments made for such spending turns on purported legal and defense requirements, each of which was examined at a Center for Strategic and International Studies panel held last week on uranium enrichment and US national security.
NPEC executive director Henry Sokolski challenges these claims and suggest the practicality of relying on existing defense stockpiles and the enrichment services of Louisiana Energy Services in New Mexico. He also discusses the potential proliferation concerns raised by new commercial enrichment technologies, such as SILEX, and explains why federal loan guarantees are unnecessary and undesirable to support the construction of additional US enrichment capacity either for commercial or military purposes.
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Jun 05, 2012 |
NPEC's executive director signs United States Uranium Enrichment Corporation (USEC) Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill Amendments Letter
Official Docs & Letters; Press Releases
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Feb 22, 2012 |
Edward L. Morse: Expecting the Unexpected: Oil in 2012 - A Year of Tail Risks
Edward L. Morse, Global Head of Commodity Research for Citigroup, gave this slide presetnation on oil price futures and Iran at an NPEC dinner seminar, "Militray Action in Gulf: What Might the Economic Knock-On Effects Be?"
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Jan 30, 2012 |
Henry Sokolski: National Security and Crony Nuclear Capitalism
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Jan 23, 2012 |
The Weekly Standard publishes "Reactors and Bombs: How North Korea and Iran can militarize 'civilian' nuclear plants.", by NPEC's exectuve directors' analysis.
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Nov 28, 2011 |
Newsweek Showcases NPEC's Take on Nuclear Power and Proliferation
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The Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), is a 501 (c)3 nonpartisan, nonprofit,
educational organization
founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues. NPEC educates
policymakers, journalists,
and university professors about proliferation threats and possible new policies and measures to meet them. |
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