讲座名称：“美国和东亚三国推迟钚废料商业开发对核不扩散和核能利用的影响”
讲座日期：2015年6月26日，3:00-5:00pm
讲座地点：必赢242net官网国关楼C105
美国和东亚三国推迟钚废料商业开发对核不扩散和核能利用的影响
Deferring Commercially Used Plutonium
in the United States and East Asia
Date: June 26, 2015
Time: 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Location: C105, SIS (School of International Studies) Building,
Peking University
The United States, China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea are planning for the eventual commercial use of plutonium-based civilian nuclear fuels. Given the current unfavorable economics and security implications of producing and using such fuels, would it make more sense for them to simultaneously announce their willingness to defer planned commercial-scale plutonium fuel related activities in advance of the Nuclear Security Summit in Chicago, in March of 2016? Henry Sokolski, executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) in Washington, DC will give a brief presentation to open a broader discussion of this topic.
Speaker:
Henry Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
Chair:
Shaofeng Chen, Peking University
About the Speaker:
Henry Sokolski is the Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization founded in 1994 to promote a better understanding of strategic weapons proliferation issues among policy-makers, scholars and the media. He currently serves as an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C.
Mr. Sokolski previously served as Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy in the Department of Defense, for which he received a medal for outstanding public service from Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. He also worked in the Office of the Secretary of Defense's Office of Net Assessment, as a consultant to the National Intelligence Council, and as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency's Senior Advisory Group. In the U.S. Senate, Mr. Sokolski served as a special assistant on nuclear energy matters to Senator Gordon Humphrey (R-NH), and as a legislative military aide to Dan Quayle (R-IN).
He was appointed by Congress in 2008 to serve a two-year term as a member of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism and in 1999 to serve on the Deutch WMD Proliferation Commission. Mr. Sokolski has authored and edited a number of works on proliferation, including Moving Beyond Pretense: Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation (2014); The Next Arms Race (2012); Nuclear Power's Global Expansion: Weighing its Costs and Risks (2010); Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter (2009); Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom (2008); and Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins and Practice (2004); and Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation (2001).
