The Center for International Security and Cooperation is a center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.
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Energy
FSI researchers examine the role of energy sources from regulatory, economic and societal angles. The Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) investigates how the production and consumption of energy affect human welfare and environmental quality. Professors assess natural gas and coal markets, as well as the smart energy grid and how to create effective climate policy in an imperfect world. This includes how state-owned enterprises – like oil companies – affect energy markets around the world. Regulatory barriers are examined for understanding obstacles to lowering carbon in energy services. Realistic cap and trade policies in California are studied, as is the creation of a giant coal market in China.
Recent Scholarly Publications
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Probabilistic Performance Assessment vs. the Safety Case Approach
January 2019
The “safety case” approach has been developed to address the issue of evaluating the performance of a geologic repository in the face of the large uncertainty that results for evaluations that...
Evolution and Structure of the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management
December 2018
The final disposal of nuclear waste is at the interface between the technologies of the nuclear fuel cycle that produce the waste and the natural hydrologic and geochemical cycles of geologic...
Scarcity in abundance: the challenges of promoting energy access in the Southern African region
October 2018
Abstract: The paper deals with the challenges of energy access, efficiency and security as essential conditions to improve people's living in the Southern African region.
Novel Method of Quantifying Radioactive Cesium-Rich Microparticles (CsMPs) in the Environment from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
June 2018
Highly radioactive cesium-rich microparticles (CsMPs) were released from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (FDNPP) to the surrounding environment at an early stage of the nuclear disaster...
Structuring Cooperative Nuclear Risk Reduction Initiatives with China
April 2017
CISAC's Siegfried Hecker, Larry Brandt and Jason Reinhardt worked with Chinese nuclear organizations on issues involving radiological and nuclear terrorism.
Questions for the presidential candidates on nuclear terrorism, proliferation, weapons policy, and energy
September 2016
Stanford expert Siegfried Hecker proposes a series of nuclear weapons and energy questions that journalists and citizens should consider asking the 2016 presidential candidates.
Perspectives on Complex Global Challenges: Education, Energy, Healthcare, Security, and Resilience
July 2016
This book discusses issues in large-scale systems in the United States and around the world.
Long-Term Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
February 2015
In a commentary on the long-term storage of SNF in the March 2015 issue of Nature Materials, Professor Rod Ewing writes that, "to design reliable and safe geological repositories it is critical to...
Redox response of actinide materials to highly ionizing radiation
February 2015
Energetic radiation can cause dramatic changes in the physical and chemical properties of actinide materials, degrading their performance in fission-based energy systems.
American scientists as public citizens: 70 years of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
January 2015
For seven decades, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has served as a discussion forum for urgent issues at the intersection of science, technology, and society.
For the People
January 2014
CISAC's Siegfried Hecker and Abbas Milani, founding co-director of the Iran Democracy Project here at Stanford, write in this Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists analysis that Iran must move beyond...
Efficient, Secure Green: Digital Utopianism and the Challenge of Making the Electrical Grid “Smart”
December 2013
Abstract: Electrical grids have long depended upon information infrastructures—systems for exchanging information about electricity generation, transmission, distribution, and use.
Nuclear denial: From Hiroshima to Fukushima
September 2013
Abstract: Governments and the nuclear power industry have a strong interest in playing down the harmful effects of radiation from atomic weapons and nuclear power plants.
Disowning Fukushima: Managing the credibility of nuclear reliability assessment in the wake of disaster
July 2013
Abstract: This paper reflects on the credibility of nuclear risk assessment in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns.
The Lavon Affair: How a false-flag operation led to war and the Israeli bomb
July 2013
Abstract The Lavon Affair, a failed Israeli covert operation directed against Egypt in 1954, triggered a chain of events that have had profound consequences for power relationships in the Middle...
Atomic Aversion: Experimental Evidence on Taboos, Traditions, and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons
February 2013
How strong are normative prohibitions on state behavior?
Geophysical limits to global wind power
September 2012
Abstract There is enough power in Earth’s winds to be a primary source of near-zero-emission electric power as the global economy continues to grow through the twenty-first century.
Examining the Nuclear Accident at Fukushima Daiichi
June 2012
In a special edition of Elements journal that covered the one-year anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, CISAC Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow Edward Blandford and Joonhong Ahn...
Lessons Learned from “Lessons Learned”: The Evolution of Nuclear Power Safety after Accidents and Near-Accidents
June 2012
Blandford and May review the major lessons learned from nuclear power accidents, and assess the impact those lessons have had on nuclear power, specifically, which measures were put into place to...
French nuclear idiosyncrasy: how it affects French nuclear policies towards the United Arab Emirates and Iran
March 2012
Abstract: This article elaborates the notion of ‘nuclear idiosyncrasy’ as a specific understanding of what nuclear weapons and energy are, what they stand for and what they can do.
Nuclear Fuel in a Reactor Accident
March 2012
Abstract Nuclear accidents that lead to melting of a reactor core create heterogeneous materials containing hundreds of radionuclides, many with short half-lives.
The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
December 2011
Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex...
Nuclear non-proliferation
November 2011
Textbook Synopsis From Cambridge University Press online: How will we meet rising energy demands? What are our options? Are there viable long-term solutions for the future?
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