Arjun Makhijani

Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) and the author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, which can be downloaded free at IEER's website.

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Articles by Arjun Makhijani

Agree to Disagree
8 September 2011

Why nuclear energy is not the answer

Arjun Makhijani

Nuclear power proponents claim:

Agree to Disagree
21 July 2011

The Fukushima tragedy demonstrates that nuclear energy doesn't make sense

Arjun Makhijani

From the time we learn to walk, mistakes are inherent in the process of human learning. An essential design principle for technology should be that we, the generations that benefit, should bear the major costs of its mistakes. Nuclear power fails this simple test miserably.

1 May 2003
Feature

Nuclear Targeting: The First 60 Years

Arjun Makhijani
The idea, in May 1943, that atomic bombs could produce a U.S.-dictated world peace was a fantasy then–as it is now.
1 July 2001
Feature

The Burden of Proof

Arjun Makhijani
1 March 2001
Feature

Magical Thinking: Another Go at Transmutation

Arjun MakhijaniHisham ZerriffiAnnie Makhijani