-- In response to Toshiba's failings, one of India's leading
nuclear policy experts is calling for the government to scrap existing plans with Areva, Westinghouse and Russia's Rosatom, and «Make Nuclear Indian Again» by scaling up the country's indigenous design.
Hennessy told an audience of
nuclear policy experts today that key «Initial Gate» decisions on the boats, missile compartments and propulsion systems had already been signed off by the Treasury and MOD.
Aghast by the church's historical «moral sausage - making» when it comes to the political outworking of the gospel in the area of U.S. nuclear weapons policy, Tyler Wigg - Stevenson — a Baptist minister and
a nuclear policy expert — responded by launching the Two Futures Project (hereafter 2FP).
Not exact matches
In a 2015 article in Foreign
Policy, Jeffrey Lewis, an expert on nuclear policy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, dubbed the weapon «Putin's doomsday machine.&
Policy, Jeffrey Lewis, an
expert on
nuclear policy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, dubbed the weapon «Putin's doomsday machine.&
policy at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, dubbed the weapon «Putin's doomsday machine.»
Richard Nephew, the lead sanctions
expert for the U.S. team that negotiated the
nuclear deal, cautioned against drawing conclusions, noting that Trump has flip - flopped after appearing to announce a
policy decision in the past.
«Everything he said was already known to the IAEA [International Atomic Energy Agency] and published,» Jeffrey Lewis, a
nuclear -
policy expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, tweeted.
His off - the - cuff speaking habit led him to make extreme statements on sensitive subjects (such as
nuclear weapons) that alarmed foreign
policy experts, but his partisans viewed such outbursts as evidence of his authenticity.
Some foreign
policy experts have taken Kim's announcement last week that North Korea would no longer test
nuclear weapons as a positive sign, but the leader also said his country didn't need to continue the testing because he already knows how effective the weapons he has are.
So my question is: Do foreign
policy experts or diplomats take seriously the idea of a productive dialogue between the US and North Korea, and under what kind of conditions would they be likely to suspend their
nuclear weapons program?
P. Balaram, a molecular biophysicist and director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore, and 60 others last week wrote an open letter to the public, stating: «We strongly believe that India must radically review its
nuclear power
policy for appropriateness, safety, costs, and public acceptance, and undertake an independent, transparent safety audit of all its
nuclear facilities, which involves non-Department of Atomic Energy
experts and civil society organisations.
SRIC networks with dozens of groups throughout the nation on various issues, and staff are widely recognized as
policy experts on
nuclear wastes, oil and gas, and mining.
Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science
policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for
nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.
There is a strong consensus among climate
policy experts that expanding
nuclear energy is required to cut CO2 emissions and improve air quality.
Four of the country's top climate
experts have distributed an open letter «To those influencing environmental
policy but opposed to
nuclear power.»