NCI
Conference Program - Monday, April 9, 2001
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8:30AM |
Registration &
Continental Breakfast |
9:00 AM |
Welcome & Overview: Can we have nuclear power without nuclear proliferation? Is there an irreducible proliferation risk posed by plutonium
production in reactors and by Paul Leventhal, President, Nuclear Control Institute |
9:20 AM |
How essential is nuclear power? To a secure energy future? To combating the greenhouse effect? How viable are the advanced, non-nuclear alternatives? Are renewable sources of energy and hydrogen-fuel technologies realistic and dependable? Can these, in combination with conservation and efficient use of energy, displace nuclear power? |
9:30 |
The case for nuclear power: Richard Rhodes, author of
"The Making of the
Atomic Bomb" and "Nuclear Renewal: Common Sense About Energy" |
9:50 |
Demand-side alternatives: Amory Lovins, CEO/Research, Rocky Mountain
Institute. |
10:10 |
Discussion |
10:30 |
Break |
10:45 |
Supply-side alternatives: Robert Williams, Senior Research Scientist,
Princeton University. |
11:05 |
Nuclear power and the alternatives: Richard Garwin, IBM Fellow Emeritus. |
11:25 |
Discussion |
12:00-1:30 |
Luncheon Remarks by Rep. Ed Markey Speaker: Robert Gallucci, Dean, Georgetown School of Foreign Service The
Continuing Relevance of Nuclear Power to the Problem of Nuclear Weapons
Proliferation |
1:45 |
How realistic are the technical fixes for making nuclear
power Is it possible to transmute plutonium, or to make recovery
and use of plutonium proliferation-resistant, or to render nuclear wastes
free of weapons-usable material? Overview: Marvin
Miller, Senior Research Scientist, MIT. |
2:00 |
The promise of the technical fixes: James
Hassberger, Senior Nuclear Scientist, Energy and Environment
Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. |
2:20 |
The limits of the technical fixes: Edwin Lyman, Scientific Director, Nuclear
Control Institute. |
2:40 |
Discussion |
3:00 |
Break |
3:15 |
Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons. What role did civilian nuclear power play in the
acquisition of nuclear weapons by India, Overview:
Zachary Davis, analyst, Z Division, Livermore National
Laboratory; former senior specialist, Congressional Research Service. |
3:30 |
Nuclear power & nuclear weapons in India and Iran: George Perkovich, author of Indias Nuclear
Bomb. |
3:50 |
The non-proliferation regime and fissile materials: Former ACDA Assistant |
4:10 |
Response: Paul
Leventhal. |
4:25 |
Roundtable discussion: Bertram Wolfe, past Vice-President/Nuclear, General Electric Co.; past president, American Nuclear Society Harold Feiveson, Senior Research Policy Scientist, Princeton University William
Lanouette, U.S. General Accounting Office; Author of "Genius
in the Shadows: A Biography of Leo Szilard, The Man Behind the Bomb" |
4:45 |
Discussion
and Closing Remarks |
5:15 |
Adjourn
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5:30-7:30 |
Reception |