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No New Nuclear in New York 

Nuclear Power Technologies Legislative Briefing: A View from Scientific & Economic Experts  

In a series of short presentations, a panel of scientific experts makes clear the many reasons why New Yorkers should not be asked to finance the construction of expensive, hazardous new small nuclear power facilities and bear the burden of the unsolved and unsolvable problem of nuclear waste

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• M.V. Ramana, PhD, Professor, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia

• David Schlissel, Schlissel Technical Consulting, former Director of Resource Planning Analysis, Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis (IEEFA)
 

• Mark Jacobson, PhD, Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program, Stanford University
 

• Ian Fairlie, PhD, former Head of UK Government CERRIE Committee on Internal Radiation Risks, Author, The Scientists Who Alerted Us to Radiation’s Dangers.
 

• Mary Olson, Founder and CEO of the Gender & Radiation Impact Project (GRIP)

Related References & Presentations

 

Small Modular Reactors: Still Too Expensive, Too Slow and Too Risky

David Schlissel and Dennis Wamsted

May 2024

Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)

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Nuclear is not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change 

M.V. Ramana 

Verso Books, 2024

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Evaluation of Nuclear Electricity as a Proposed Solution to Air Pollution, Global Warming, and Energy Insecurity 

(Chapter in) Still No Miracles Needed: How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air

Mark Jacobson

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025

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The Scientists Who Alerted Us to the Dangers of Radiation

Ian Fairlie and Cindy Folkers

Ethics International Press Ltd, UK, 2024

 

Gender and Radiation: Towards a New Research Agenda Addressing Disproportionate Harm  

Amanda Nichols, Mary Olson 

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, November 2024

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