Friday, December 10, 2010 | |
8:00-8:458:45-9:00 | Coffee & Opening Remarks |
9:00-12:00 |
PANEL 1
Chair: Jake Kosek, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley
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9:00-9:30 |
How Best to Approach an Uncertain Nuclear Future
Tom Isaacs, Consulting Professor, Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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9:30-10:00 |
Official Science Fictions: Revisiting the Nuclear Future
Joseph Masco, Department of Anthropology, The University of Chicago
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10:00-10:30 |
A History of the Nuclear Future
Victor Gilinsky, Independent Consultant
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10:30-11:00 |
What Metascience Shows about Energy Futures: Economics Threatens Nuclear Fission and Encourages Renewable Energy
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Ph.D., O’Neill Family Endowed Professor, Department of Philosophy and Department of Biological Sciences, and Director, Center for Environmental Justice and Children’s Health, University of Notre Dame
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11:00-12:00 | Discussion |
12:00-1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30-3:30 |
PANEL 2
Chair: TBA
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1:30-2:00
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Standard Errors in Forecasting Future Nuclear Energy System Costs
Geoffrey Rothwell, Department of Economics, Stanford University; Associate Director of the Public Policy Program, Stanford University
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2:00-2:30 |
Past performance is no guide to future returns: What can we really say about the future of economic, social, and technological systems?
Jonathan Koomey, Consulting Professor, Stanford University
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2:30-3:00 | Discussion |
3:00-3:30 | Coffee Break |
3:30-6:003:30-4:00 |
PANEL 3
Chair: TBA
NRDC’s Nuclear Power Database
Thomas Cochran, Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council
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4:00-4:30 |
Limitations of Large-scale Integrated Assessment Methods for Predicting Nuclear Futures: A Reductionist’s Viewpoint
Edward Blandford, CISAC Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
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4:30-5:00 |
Title TBA
Ian Hoffman, Electricity Markets and Policy Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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5:00-6:00 | Discussion |
Saturday, December 11, 2010 | |
8:30-9:00 | Coffee |
9:00-12:00 |
PANEL 4
Chair: TBA
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9:00-9:30 |
A Paradigm Shift for Nuclear Power Operation and Design: “Significance First” in the 21st Century
Constance Perin, Ph.D., Visiting Scholar, Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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9:30-10:00 |
If They Gave a Renaissance and Nobody Came: Discursive Preconditions for a World Without Nuclear Power
William J. Kinsella, Department of Communication and Interdisciplinary Program in Science, Technology, & Society, North Carolina State University
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10:00-10:30 |
Nuclear Power: How will technology evolution affect economics and the scale of future deployment?
Per Peterson, Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
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10:30-11:00 |
The Link Between the Nuclear Power Plant Operation and Construction and “Solutions” for the Disposition of High-Activity Radioactive Waste: A Cross-National Comparison
Daniel Metlay, Senior Professional Staff, U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
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11:00-12:00 | Discussion |
12:00-1:30 | Lunch Break |
1:30-4:00 |
PANEL 5
Chair: Gene Rochlin, Energy and Resources Group, University of California, Berkeley
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1:30-2:00 |
Roles of Performance Assessment for Geological Disposal
Joonhong Ahn, Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
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2:00-2:30 |
Modeling the Future: Does It Tell Us What We Want to Know
Allison Macfarlane, George Mason University
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2:30-3:00 |
Past Futures of Radioactive Waste Management
Cathryn Carson, Department of History and Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, University of California, Berkeley
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3:00-4:00 | Discussion |