Panel focuses on environmental impacts of nuclear power
The General Chair's Special Session, titled "Leveling the Environmental Playing Field" on Monday June 2nd, featured presentations from government and industry leaders including:
- Environmental Value of Nuclear in an Era of Climate Change Concerns, Dan Keuter (Entergy, Jackson)
- Financial Value of Today's Nuclear Fleet to the Environment and Life Cycle Management Issues, Theodore U. Marston (EPRI)
- DOE-NE's Hydrogen Work Program, David Henderson (DOE)
- Nuclear Production of Hydrogen, Kenneth Schultz (General Atomics)
- The Role of Nuclear Power in the Hydrogen Ecomy, Andrew Green (Navigant Consulting)
- Nuclear Power Statistics: The Environmental Tradeoffs, When do they Matter? Ronald Hagen (EIA)
- The Hydrogen Production Program at the INEEL, Finis Southworth (BWXT)
The official program can be found on the ANS web site. Honorary General Chairs of the event include Admiral Dennis Wilkinson, President Emeritus of INPO and Linden Blue of General Atomics. Ted Quinn, ANS Past President and advisor to General Atomics, serves as General Chair, with Assistant General Chair, Henry Chiu of General Atomics, and Technical Program Chair, Per Peterson, Department Head of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
