Balancing risks: nuclear energy & climate change

Robert H. Socolow is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Codirector of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton University. His publications include “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies” (with Stephen Pacala), Science (2004), and the edited volume Industrial Ecology and Global Change (1994).

Alexander Glaser is Assistant Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He is a participant in the University's Program on Science and Global Security and works with the International Panel on Fissile Materials, which publishes the annual Global Fissile Material Report.