MIT World – The Future of Nuclear Energy

ByRod Adams

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

Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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