Arjun Makhijani
Arjun Makhijani is a nuclear engineer who is president of the anti-nuclear organization, the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.[1][2] Makhijani has written reports analyzing the safety, economics, and efficiency of various energy sources.
Education
Makhijani has a Ph.D. (Engineering), from the University of California, Berkeley, where he specialized in nuclear fusion.[3]
Publications
Arjun Makhijani has written publications analyzing the safety, economics, and efficiency of various energy sources, including nuclear power and renewable energy sources such as wind power and solar energy. He was also the principal author of the first overview study on Energy and Agriculture in the Third World[4] (Ballinger 1975). He was one of the principal technical staff of the Ford Foundation Energy Policy Project, and a co-author of its final report, A Time to Choose.[5]
Awards
In 1989, Dr Makhijani received The John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism[6] of the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, with Robert Alvarez; was awarded the Josephine Butler Nuclear Free Future Award in 2001;[7] the 2007/2008 Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy[8] by the Tides Foundation.
See also
References
- ^ Clayton, Mark (2011-03-14). "Japanese nuclear reactor update: Amid signs of progress, new problems". The Christian Science Monitor.
"There should be much more attention paid to the spent-fuel pools," says Arjun Makhijani, a nuclear engineer and president of the anti-nuclear power Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.
- ^ Davidson, Keay (1998-07-20). "Activists: Super-laser may bring tiny nukes". San Francisco Chronicle.
...says a report by physicist Arjun Makhijani and his colleague Hisham Zerriffi. They work at a leading anti-nuclear think tank, the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Takoma Park, Md.
- ^ IEER Program Staff Profiles
- ^ "Energy and Agriculture in the Third World" Archived October 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "A Time to Choose" Archived October 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ John Bartlow Martin Award Archived 2009-04-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ DC Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee Archived January 29, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 2007/2008 JBL Award Archived August 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Nuclear isn’t necessary
- Atomic Myths, Radioactive Realities
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groups
- Abalone Alliance
- Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
- Clamshell Alliance
- Committee for Nuclear Responsibility
- Corporate Accountability International
- Critical Mass Energy Project
- Friends of the Earth
- Greenpeace USA
- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
- Mothers for Peace
- Musicians United for Safe Energy
- Nevada Desert Experience
- Nuclear Control Institute
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Plowshares movement
- Ploughshares Fund
- Public Citizen
- Shad Alliance
- Sierra Club
- Three Mile Island Alert
- Women Strike for Peace
- Kings Bay Plowshares
- Daniel Berrigan
- William J. Bichsel
- Bruce G. Blair
- Larry Bogart
- Helen Caldicott
- Barry Commoner
- Norman Cousins
- Frances Crowe
- Carrie Barefoot Dickerson
- Paul M. Doty
- Bernard T. Feld
- Randall Forsberg
- John Gofman
- Paul Gunter
- John Hall
- Jackie Hudson
- Sam Lovejoy
- Amory Lovins
- Bernard Lown
- Arjun Makhijani
- Gregory Minor
- Hermann Joseph Muller
- Ralph Nader
- Graham Nash
- Linus Pauling
- Eugene Rabinowitch
- Phil Radford
- Bonnie Raitt
- Carl Sagan
- Martin Sheen
- Karen Silkwood
- Thomas
- Louis Vitale
- Harvey Wasserman
- Victor Weisskopf
protest
sites
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon
- Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power
- Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978
- The Cult of the Atom
- The Doomsday Machine (book)
- Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
- Killing Our Own
- Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
- Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West
- Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System
- Nuclear Politics in America
- We Almost Lost Detroit