March 12th, 2012

Stanford experts look at lessons learned from Japan crisis

March 11 marked the one-year anniversary of Japan's 9.0 earthquake and the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. CISAC's experts examine what Japan and the world have learned from these catastrophic events.

• » Ed Blandford: The events at Fukushima Daiichi were due to a series of failures
• » Rodney Ewing: We need to know more about what happens when hot seawater hits nuclear fuel

November 19th, 2010

CISAC team discovers new North Korean uranium enrichment facility

CISAC's Siegfried Hecker, Robert Carlin, and John Lewis recently returned from North Korea, where it was revealed to them that Pyongyang was working on a new light-water reactor at the Yongbyon nuclear center, as well as a small, ultra-modern, industrial-scale uranium enrichment facility. "How the United States and its partners respond to these developments may help to shape whether Pyongyang will rely more on the bomb or begin a shift toward nuclear electricity," Hecker wrote in a report on their findings.

• » North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Complex: A presentation by Siegfried S. Hecker at the Korea Economic Institute
  
• » North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Complex: A Report by Siegfried S. Hecker
• » Robert Carlin and John W. Lewis in the Washington Post: "Review U.S. Policy Toward North Korea" (Nov. 22, 2010)

April 30th, 2008

CISAC's Siegfried Hecker testifies before Senate Appropriations Committee

Dr. Hecker testified April 30, 2008, about the importance of expanding the cooperative threat reduction programs to counter the growing proliferation of nuclear weapons and weapons capability.
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