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Chernobyl at 40 years: Looking back at Nuclear News
Sunday, April 26, at 1:23 a.m. local time will mark 40 years since the most severe nuclear accident in history: the meltdown of Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.
In the ensuing four decades, countless books, documentaries, articles, and conference sessions have examined Chernobyl’s history and impact from various angles. There is a similar abundance of outlooks in the archives of Nuclear News, where hundreds of scientists, advocates, critics, and politicians have shared their thoughts on Chernobyl over the years. Today, we will take a look at some highlights from the pages of NN to see how the story of Chernobyl evolved over the decades.
Technical Session|Panel|Sponsored by DESD
Monday, November 16, 2020|1:00–3:10PM EST
Session Chair:
Yoon I. Chang (ANL)
Alternate Chair:
William D. Magwood IV (OECD Nuclear Energy Agency)
Session Organizer:
Jan B. Van Erp (consultant)
Staff Producer:
Daryl Rizzo (American Nuclear Society)
Anthropogenic CO2 is a major cause of climate change, according to scientific consensus. Energy derived from fossil fuels is one of the main sources of atmospheric CO2. This session will address means for reducing energy-related CO2 emissions with emphasis on economic aspects. This panel session will feature the following speakers: 1) Keynote speech by William Magwood, Director General of OECD’s Nuclear Energy Agency : Costs of Decarbonization -- The Role of Nuclear Energy in the Energy Transition ; 2) Luc van den Durpel, President of Nuclear 21 : Energizing Sustainability -- Nuclear’s Unique Contribution; 3) Bill Sacks, co-author with Gregory Meyerson of forthcoming book entitled “Dyseconomies of Scale: Capitalism, the Green New Deal, and Nuclear Power” : Wind and Solar Energy Cannot Scale: The Importance of EROI ; 4) Yoon Chang, Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory : Improving Fuel Recycling Economics to Enable Large-Scale Nuclear Power Deployment
Bill Sacks
Consultant
Luc DURPEL
Nuclear-21 Consulting
Yoon Chang
ANL
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