MIT World – The Future of Nuclear Energy

ByRod Adams May 30, 2007July 21, 2020

On March 1, 2007, the Technology and Culture Forum at MIT and MIT Student Pugwash hosted a three member panel to discuss The Future of Nuclear Energy. The panel members included

Andy Kadak: Professor of the Practice of Nuclear Engineering, MIT
Allison Macfarlane: Associate Professor of Environment Science and Policy at George Mason University and Research Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs’ Project on Managing the Atom, Harvard University
Victor Reis: Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Energy

MIT World Distributed Learning has recently posted the video of the talks and subsequent Q&A session. You can watch it using Real Player (the only choice offered on the site) via a link from MIT World: The Future of Nuclear Energy

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