Mark Cooper

Cooper is a senior research fellow for economic analysis at the Center for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School. He has almost 30 years experience as a public policy analyst and expert witness for public interest clients. As such, he has appeared more than 300 times before public utility commissions, federal agencies, and state and federal legislatures in more than 40 jurisdictions in the United States and Canada. He first analyzed nuclear power economics in 1984 for the Mississippi Public Service Commission in regard to the construction of the second unit at the Grand Gulf nuclear power station.

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Articles by Mark Cooper

Opinion
18 June 2013
Nuclear Energy
Americas

Nuclear aging: Not so graceful

Mark Cooper

The early decommissioning of San Onofre shows the need for closer scrutiny of decisions to repair or build nuclear power plants. 

1 July 2012
Features

Nuclear safety and affordable reactors: Can we have both?

Mark Cooper
Opinion
5 October 2011
Nuclear Energy

Nuclear liability: The market-based, post-Fukushima case for ending Price-Anderson

Mark Cooper

The need to revisit and revise regulations regarding financial responsibility for nuclear accidents has been clear and compelling for at least a quarter of a century (since Chernobyl) and has been made overwhelmingly obvious by Fukushima. The political opening to revise these regulations will vary from nation to nation, but is particularly small in the United States.

Opinion
2 December 2009
Nuclear Energy

Further nuclear power subsidies are wrongheaded

Mark Cooper

It is ironic that as the nation continues to suffer from the misallocation of risk by companies in the financial sector, some of the strongest supporters of free markets and critics of government action are urging a massive federal subsidy for nuclear power.