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Projects
Action Agenda for Electoral Reform
Ecotourism and Sustainable Development
Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards
New Internationalism -- U.N. and the Middle East
Social Action and Leadership School
Sustainable Energy and Economy Network
IPS
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Nuclear Security
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Reports and Links: (by Robert Alvarez unless noted otherwise)
August 23, 2006 -- The Risks of Making Nuclear Weapons, an article by Robert Alvarez (PDF) August 10, 2006 -- Y-12 Report, exposing the risks of highly enriched uranium at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Y-12 National Security Complex, and providing recommendations (PDF) October 12, 2005 -- U.S. Energy Policy and Hurricane Katrina a presentation by Robert Alvarez (pdf) May 16, 2005 -- Cases Against Nuclear Plant Finally Heard in the Los Angeles Times quotes Nuclear Policy project director Robert Alvarez May 12, 2005 -- 'Downwinders' case finally goes to court in USA Today quotes Nuclear Policy project director Robert Alvarez May 12, 2005 -- North Koreans Claim to Extract Fuel for Nuclear Weapons in the New York Times quotes Nuclear Policy project director Bob Alvarez (free registration required) April 6, 2005 -- Nuclear Plants in 31 States Said Prone from the Associated Press quotes Nuclear Policy Project director Robert Alvarez March 2005 -- The Washington Post and New York Times reported on a growing conflict between the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) over a classified report requested by the Congress urging protection of nuclear power reactor spent fuel pools. The Congressional request was prompted by a study IPS helped organize, which found that unprotected spent reactor fuel pools could become the ultimate radiological "dirty bombs." A terrorist attack could cause the pool water to drain and start a catastrophic radiological fire worse than Chernobyl. February 25, 2005 -- The Department of Energy Under the Bush Administration's Proposed FY 2006 Budget A presentation by Robert Alvarez, IPS Nuclear Policy Fellow July 27, 2004 -- Reducing the Risks of High-Level Radioactive Wastes at Hanford By Robert Alvarez (.pdf document.)
August 17, 2003 -- Renewed calls for regulation may reshape U.S. energy policy, in the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch features IPS's Robert Alvarez, former head of Emergency Planning at the U.S. Department of Energy. August 15, 2003 -- North Korea Missile Trade, a WashingtonPost.com web discussion with Robert Alvarez, director of IPS's Nuclear Policy Project. June 25, 2003 -- North Korea: No bygones at Yongbyon By Robert Alvarez from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists June 2003 -- The Legacy of Depleted Uranium in the United States a new presenation by Robert Alvarez. (Adobe Acrobat pdf format.) June 3, 2003 -- The Next Nuclear Power? Truth Hard to Find in North Korea's Weapons Claim National Public Radio story featuring Robert Alvarez. May 8, 2003 -- Robert Alvarez, IPS Nuclear Policy Fellow, is quoted in an article and an editorial in this week's issue of the journal Nature regarding the North Korea nuclear situation. Life with a Nuclear-Armed North Korea Essay and Powerpoint presentation Reducing the hazards of stored spent reactor fuel in the United States. From the Spring 2003 issue of Science and Global Security, a journal at Princeton University. Your Homeland: A 'National Sacrifice Area' TomPaine.com interview with Robert Alvarez, April 2002 February 22, 2002 -- Robert Alvarez was on NPR's Science Friday on Friday, February 22. Listen to the program. What about the spent fuel? From the January/February 2002 Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. Making It Work: Will Legislation Do the Job? on the state of the program to compensate nuclear workers. From the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, July/August 2001. Long Season of Discontent -- a look at the state of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists The Department of Energy's War on Whistleblowers by Chris Berdik, Mother Jones MoJo News Wire, January 17, 2001 Take the Toys Away from the Boys Alvarez and William Hartung exchange letters on National Missile Defense in the June 4, 2001, The Nation Nuclear Worker Health: A Debt Long Overdue by Michael Flynn Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, July/August 2001 Aid for Nuclear Workers, The Nation, October 2000 America's Cold War Casualties Salon.com, May 6, 2000 Energy in Decay Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, May/June 2000 Risks to Uranium Process Workers from the website of the British Medical Journal |
The Institute’s new Nuclear Policy Project’s work will focus on three broad issues: strategic integration of nuclear material management into nuclear arsenal reductions and ending production of nuclear explosives, accountability of the nuclear weapons states to their citizens relative to social, environmental, safety, and health impacts, and structural collapse of Cold War nuclear institutions.
Working independently over the past year and a half, project director Robert Alvarez helped draft legislation establishing a compensation plan for Department of Energy nuclear workers and led a media campaign that played a crucial role in the legislation’s enactment; drew national attention to the dangers resulting from the Cerro Grande Fire at Los Alamos National Laboratory; forced changes in the way radioactive waste is handled; and brought attention, first from the media and then from the DOE, to cost overruns with a contractor.
Nuclear Policy project director Robert Alvarez served as senior policy advisor to the Secretary of Energy from 1993 to 1999.