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The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, along with Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, held a one-day symposium on March 28th to mark the 35th anniversary of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility.
In lectures and panel discussions, a range of experts from across government, industry, and academia, some of whom were involved in President Carter's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island (led by Dartmouth's 13th President John Kemeny), reviewed and discussed the past, present and future of nuclear energy nationally and internationally.
Slides presented at the Symposium can be accessed through this folder on Google Drive. The Symposium was recorded and can be viewed on the Dickey Center's YouTube channel. Photos of the day's events can be viewed on the Dickey Center's Flickr account. The symposium's agenda follows.
Click here to download a pdf version of the agenda.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Spanos Auditorium, Cummings Hall, Thayer School of Engineering
Dartmouth College
8:00-8:30am
Continental breakfast
8:30-8:45am
Welcome
8:45-9:00am
Introductory remarks by Philip Hanlon, 18th president of Dartmouth College
9:00-10:15am
Panel: Nuclear Energy's Past
Moderated by: Graham Wallis, Sherman Fairchild Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College
Panelists
10:15-11:00am
Keynote: John Kelly, deputy assistant secretary of energy for nuclear reactor technologies
11:00-11:15am
Break
11:15am-12:30pm
Panel: The Current State of Nuclear Energy
Moderated by: Dan Reicher, executive director, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford University (served on the staff of President Carter’s Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island and former assistant secretary of energy)
Panelists
12:30-1pm
A Report from Congress
Congressman Peter Welch, U.S. House of Representatives (D-VT) (member of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce)
1:00-2:30pm
Lunch break
2:30-3:15pm
Keynote: Amory Lovins, cofounder and chief scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
3:15-3:30pm
Break
3:30pm-5:00pm
Panel: The Future of Nuclear Energy
Moderated by: Charles Sullivan, professor of engineering, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College and Erin Mansur, associate professor of economics, Dartmouth College
Panelists
5:00-5:15pm
Concluding remarks
Co-sponsored by:
The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth with the
Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford