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Nuclear Power and Nuclear Bombs
In this influential paper from Foreign Affairs, the authors argue that the nuclear proliferation problem is insoluble. At the time, all policies to control proliferation…
Nuclear Weapons and Power-Reactor Plutonium
This article, originally published in Nature in 1980, seeks to provide a discreet, selective, but adequate physical basis for understanding the scope for using reactor-grade…
Thorium Cycles and Proliferation: Response
This article by A. De Volpi responds to an earlier piece by Amory Lovins in which Lovins condemns the use of thorium cycles. De Volpi…
Thorium Cycles and Proliferation
This is the first in a two-part exchange between Amory Lovins and A. De Volpi about thorium cycles and nuclear proliferation. In this piece, Lovins…
Out of the Frying Pan, Into the PWR
In this paper, Amory Lovins argues that pressurized water reactors (PWR) are an economic disaster. PWRs are a type of nuclear power reactor. Lovins argues…