The Economics of Reprocessing Versus Direct Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel

Human well-being rests on a foundation of three pillars: economic conditions and processes; sociopolitical conditions and processes; and environmental conditions and processes. Arguments about which pillar is “the most important” are misguided. All three pillars are indispensable.

Statement of John P. Holdren for the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate. Clean Coal Conference, March 10, 2005.

The report contains detailed policy recommendations for addressing oil security, climate change, natural gas supply, the future of nuclear energy, and other long-term challenges, and is backed by more than 30 original research studies.

A database tracking budget requests on energy-technology research, development, and demonstraton (RD&D) from 1978–2006.

Harvey Brooks passed away at the age of 88 on May 28, 2004, at the home on Brewster Street in Cambridge that he shared with his wife Helen for more than fifty years. He was the Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Emeritus, at the Kennedy School, the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus, in Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Science, and the founder in 1976 and director until 1986 of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Kennedy School's Center for Science and International Affairs, today known as the Belfer Center.

U.S. Government Investments in Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Database: a database in Microsoft Excel format tracking budget requests on energy-technology research, development, and demonstraton (RD&D) from 1978–2004, including charts.