Arjun Makhijani
{{Short description|American nuclear engineer and activist}}
Arjun Makhijani is a nuclear engineer who is president of the anti-nuclear organization, the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.{{ cite news | url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0314/Japanese-nuclear-reactor-update-Amid-signs-of-progress-new-problems | title=Japanese nuclear reactor update: Amid signs of progress, new problems | last=Clayton | first=Mark | newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor | date=2011-03-14 | quote="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. }}{{ cite news | url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Activists-Super-laser-may-bring-tiny-nukes-3079524.php | title=Activists: Super-laser may bring tiny nukes | last=Davidson | first=Keay | newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle | date=1998-07-20 | quote=...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. }} 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.[http://www.ieer.org/ieerstaf.html IEER Program Staff Profiles]
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[http://www.fordfound.org/archives/item/0338 "Energy and Agriculture in the Third World"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025035634/http://www.fordfound.org/archives/item/0338 |date=October 25, 2008 }} (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.[http://www.fordfound.org/archives/item/0159 "A Time to Choose"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025035516/http://www.fordfound.org/archives/item/0159 |date=October 25, 2008 }}
Awards
In 1989, Dr Makhijani received The John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism[http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/about/sponsoredawards.aspx?id=58389 John Bartlow Martin Award] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408095243/http://www.medill.northwestern.edu/about/sponsoredawards.aspx?id=58389 |date=2009-04-08 }} of the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, with Robert Alvarez; was awarded the Josephine Butler Nuclear Free Future Award in 2001;[http://www.washingtonpeacecenter.net/civic/node/1112 DC Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Committee] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090129213459/http://www.washingtonpeacecenter.net/civic/node/1112 |date=January 29, 2009 }} the 2007/2008 Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy[http://www.tides.org/resources-news/news-room/single-news-item/article/anti-nuclear-advocates-receive-jbl-awards-from-tides-foundation/index.html 2007/2008 JBL Award] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080810100128/http://www.tides.org/resources-news/news-room/single-news-item/article/anti-nuclear-advocates-receive-jbl-awards-from-tides-foundation/index.html |date=August 10, 2008 }} by the Tides Foundation.
See also
References
External links
- [http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0810/pdf/climate.2008.103.pdf Nuclear isn’t necessary]
- [http://www.ieer.org/pubs/atomicmyths.html Atomic Myths, Radioactive Realities]
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