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Curriculum Vita of Arjun Makhijani Address and Phone:
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research 6935 Laurel Ave., Suite 201 Takoma Park, MD 20912 Phone: 301-270-5500 e-mail: arjun@ieer.org Website: www.ieer.org A recognized authority on energy issues, Dr. Makhijani is the author and co-author of numerous reports and books on energy and environment related issues, including two published by MIT Press. He was the principal author of the first study of the energy efficiency potential of the US economy published in 1971. He is the author of Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (2007).
In 2007, he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was named a Ploughshares Hero, by the Ploughshares Fund (2006); was awarded the Jane Bagley Lehman Award of the Tides Foundation in 2008 and the Josephine Butler Nuclear Free Future Award in 2001; and in 1989 he received The John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism of the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, with Robert Alvarez.
He has many published articles in journals and magazines as varied as The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Environment, The Physics of Fluids, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Progressive, as well as in newspapers, including the Washington Post.
Dr. Makhijani has testified before Congress, and has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, CBS 60 Minutes, NPR, CNN, and BBC, among others. He has served as a consultant on energy issues to utilities, including the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Edison Electric Institute, the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and several agencies of the United Nations.
Education:
- Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1972, from the Department of Electrical Engineering. Area of specialization: plasma physics as applied to controlled nuclear fusion. Dissertation topic: multiple mirror confinement of plasmas. Minor fields of doctoral study: statistics and physics.
- M.S. (Electrical Engineering) Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, 1967.
Thesis topic: electromagnetic wave propagation in the ionosphere.
- Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical), University of Bombay, Bombay, India, 1965.
Current Employment:
- 1987-present: President and Senior Engineer, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland. (part-time in 1987).
- February 3, 2004-present, Associate, SC&A, Inc., one of the principal investigators in the audit of the reconstruction of worker radiation doses under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act under contract to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Other Long-term Employment
- 1984-88: Associate Professor, Capitol College, Laurel, Maryland (part-time in 1988).
- 1983-84: Assistant Professor, Capitol College, Laurel, Maryland.
- 1977-79: Visiting Professor, National Institute of Bank Management, Bombay, India.
Principal responsibility: evaluation of the Institute's extensive pilot rural development program.
- 1975-87: Independent consultant (see page 3 for details)
- 1972-74: Project Specialist, Ford Foundation Energy Policy Project. Responsibilities included research and writing on the technical and economic aspects of energy conservation and supply in the U.S.; analysis of Third World rural energy problems; preparation of requests for proposals; evaluation of proposals; and the management of grants made by the Project to other institutions.
- 1969-70: Assistant Electrical Engineer, Kaiser Engineers, Oakland California.
Responsibilities included the design and checking of the electrical aspects of mineral industries such as cement plants, and plants for processing mineral ores such as lead and uranium ores. Pioneered the use of the desk-top computer at Kaiser Engineers for performing electrical design calculations.
Professional Societies:
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and its Power Engineering Society
- American Physical Society (Fellow)
- Health Physics Society
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Awards and Honors:
- The John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism of the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, 1989, with Robert Alvarez
- The Josephine Butler Nuclear Free Future Award, 2001
- Ploughshares Hero, Ploughshares Fund, 2006
- Elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2007, For his tireless efforts to provide the public with accurate and understandable information on energy and environmental issues
- Jane Bagley Lehman Award of the Tides Foundation, 2007/2008 2
Committee Member, Radiation Advisory Committee, Science Advisory Board, U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, 1992-1994 Invited Faculty Member, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School: Annual Congressional Course, Environmental Change: The Science and Human Health Impacts, April 18-19, 2006, Lecture Topic: An Update on Nuclear Power - Is it Safe?
Consulting Experience, 1975-1987 Consultant on a wide variety of issues relating to technical and economic analyses of alternative energy sources; electric utility rates and investment planning; energy conservation; analysis of energy use in agriculture; US energy policy; energy policy for the Third World; evaluations of portions of the nuclear fuel cycle.
Partial list of institutions to which I was a consultant in the 1975-87 period:
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- Lower Colorado River Authority
- Federation of Rocky Mountain States
- Environmental Policy Institute
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- International Labour Office of the United Nations
- United Nations Environment Programme
- United Nations Center on Transnational Corporations
- The Ford Foundation
- Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
- United Nations Development Programme Languages: English, French, Hindi, Sindhi, and Marathi.
Reports, Books, and Articles (Partial list)
(Newsletter, newspaper articles, excerpts from publications reprinted in books and magazines or adapted therein, and other similar publications are not listed below)
Hower, G.L., and A. Makhijani, "Further Comparison of Spread-F and Backscatter Sounder Measurements," Journal of Geophysical Research 74 (1969): 3723.
Makhijani, A., and A.J. Lichtenberg, An Assessment of Energy and Materials Utilization in the U.S.A., University of California Electronics Research Laboratory, Berkeley, 1971.
Logan, B. G., A.J. Lichtenberg, M. Lieberman, and A. Makhijani, "Multiple-Mirror Confinement of Plasmas," Physical Review Letters 28 (1972): 144-147.
Makhijani, A., and A.J. Lichtenberg, "Energy and Well-Being," Environment 14 (June 1972):
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Makhijani, A., A.J. Lichtenberg, M. Lieberman, and B. Logan, "Plasma Confinement in Multiple Mirror Systems. I. Theory," Physics of Fluids 17 (1974): 12911301.
A Time to Choose: America's Energy Future, final report of the Ford Foundation Energy Policy Project, Ballinger, Cambridge, 1974. One of many co-authors.
Makhijani, A., and A. Poole, Energy and Agriculture in the Third World, Ballinger, Cambridge, 1975.
Makhijani, A., Energy Policy for the Rural Third World, International Institute for Environment and Development, London, 1976.
Kahn, E., M. Davidson, A. Makhijani, P. Caeser, and S. Berman, Investment Planning in the Energy Sector, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, 1976.
Makhijani, A., "Solar Energy for the Rural Third World," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 1977.
Makhijani, A., "Energy Policy for Rural India," Economic and Political Weekly (Bombay) 12 (1977).
Makhijani, A., Some Questions of Method in the Tennessee Valley Authority Rate Study, Report to the Tennessee Valley Authority, Chattanooga, 1978.
Makhijani, A., The Economics and Sociology of Alternative Energy Sources, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 1979.
Makhijani, A., Energy Use in the Post-Harvest Component of the Food Systems in Ivory Coast and Nicaragua, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, 1982.
Makhijani, A., Oil Prices and the Crises of Debt and Unemployment: Methodological and Structural Aspects, International Labour Office of the United Nations, Final Draft Report, Geneva, April 1983.
Makhijani, A., and D. Albright, The Irradiation of Personnel at Operation Crossroads, International Radiation Research and Training Institute, Washington, D.C., 1983.
Makhijani, A., K.M. Tucker, with Appendix by D. White, Heat, High Water, and Rock Instability at Hanford, Health and Energy Institute, Washington, D.C., 1985.
Makhijani, A., and J. Kelly, Target: Japan - The Decision to Bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, July 1985, a report published as a book in Japanese under the title, Why Japan?, Kyoikusha, Tokyo, 1985.
Makhijani, A., Experimental Irradiation of Air Force Personnel During Operation Redwing -
1956, Environmental Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., 1985.
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Makhijani, A., and R.S. Browne, "Restructuring the International Monetary System," World Policy Journal (Winter 1985-86).
Makhijani, A., R. Alvarez, and B. Blackwelder, Deadly Crop in the Tank Farm: An Assessment of Management of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in the Savannah River Plant Tank Farm, Environmental Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., 1986.
Makhijani, A., "Relative Wages and Productivity in International Competition," College Industry Conference Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education, Washington, D.C., 1987.
Makhijani, A., An Assessment of the Energy Recovery Aspect of the Proposed Mass Burn Facility at Preston, Connecticut, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, 1987.
Makhijani, A., R. Alvarez, and B. Blackwelder, Evading the Deadly Issues: Corporate Mismanagement of America's Nuclear Weapons Production, Environmental Policy Institute, Washington, D.C., 1987.
Franke, B. and A. Makhijani, Avoidable Death: A Review of the Selection and Characterization of a Radioactive Waste Repository in West Germany, Health & Energy Institute, Washington, DC; Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, November 1987.
Makhijani, A., Release Estimates of Radioactive and Non-Radioactive Materials to the Environment by the Feed Materials Production Center, 1951-85, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, 1988.
Alvarez, R., and A. Makhijani, "The Hidden Nuclear Legacy," Technology Review 91 (1988):
42-51.
Makhijani, A., Annie Makhijani, and A. Bickel, Saving Our Skins: Technical Potential and Policies for the Elimination of Ozone-Depleting Chlorine Compounds, Environmental Policy Institute and Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, 1988.
Makhijani, A., Annie Makhijani, and A. Bickel, Reducing Ozone-Depleting Chlorine and Bromine Accumulations in the Stratosphere: A Critique of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Analysis and Recommendations, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and Environmental Policy Institute/Friends of the Earth, Takoma Park, 1989.
Makhijani, A., and B. Franke, Addendum to Release Estimates of Radioactive and Non-Radioactive Materials to the Environment by the Feed Materials Production Center, 1951-85, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, 1989.
Makhijani, A., Global Warming and Ozone Depletion: An Action Program for States, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, 1989.
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Makhijani, A., Managing Municipal Solid Wastes in Montgomery County, Prepared for the Sugarloaf Citizens Association, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, 1990.
Saleska, S., and A. Makhijani, To Reprocess or Not to Reprocess: The Purex Question - A Preliminary Assessment of Alternatives for the Management of N-Reactor Irradiated Fuel at the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Nuclear Weapons Production Facility, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, 1990.
Makhijani, A., "Common Security is Far Off," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 1990.
Makhijani, A., Draft Power in South Asian Agriculture: Analysis of the Problem and Suggestions for Policy, prepared for the Office of Technology Assessment, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, 1990.
Mehta, P.S., S.J. Mehta, A.S. Mehta, and A. Makhijani, "Bhopal Tragedy's Health Effects: A Review of Methyl Isocyanate Toxicity," JAMA 264 (December 5, 1990): 2781-2781,.
Special Commission of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Radioactive Heaven and Earth: The Health and Environmental Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing In, On, and Above the Earth, Apex Press, New York, 1991. One of many co-authors.
Makhijani, A., and S. Saleska, High Level Dollars Low-Level Sense: A Critique of Present Policy for the Management of Long-Lived Radioactive Waste and Discussion of an Alternative Approach, Apex Press, New York, 1992.
Makhijani, A., From Global Capitalism to Economic Justice: An Inquiry into the Elimination of Systemic Poverty, Violence and Environmental Destruction in the World Economy, Apex Press, New York, 1992.
Special Commission of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Plutonium: Deadly Gold of the Nuclear Age, International Physicians Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992. One of several co-authors.
Makhijani, A., "Energy Enters Guilty Plea," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 1994.
Makhijani, A., "Open the Files," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jan./Feb. 1995.
Makhijani, A., " 'Always' the Target?" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 1995.
Makhijani, A., and Annie Makhijani, Fissile Materials in a Glass, Darkly: Technical and Policy Aspects of the Disposition of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium, IEER Press, Takoma Park, 1995.
Makhijani, A., and K. Gurney, Mending the Ozone Hole: Science, Technology, and Policy, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995.
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Makhijani, A., H. Hu, K. Yih, eds., Nuclear Wastelands: A Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons Production and the Health and Environmental Effects, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995.
Zerriffi, H., and A. Makhijani, The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen: Warhead Safety and Reliability and the Science Based Stockpile Stewardship Program, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, May 1996.
Zerriffi, H., and A. Makhijani, "The Stewardship Smokescreen," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September/October 1996.
Makhijani, A., Energy Efficiency Investments as a Source of Foreign Exchange, prepared for the International Energy Agency Conference in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 24-26 September 1996.
Makhijani, A., "India's Options," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 1997.
Ortmeyer, P. and A. Makhijani, "Worse than We Knew," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November/December 1997.
Fioravanti, M., and A. Makhijani, Containing the Cold War Mess: Restructuring the Environmental Management of the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, October 1997.
Principal author of three chapters in Schwartz, S., ed., Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.,
1998.
Franke, B., and A. Makhijani, Radiation Exposures in the Vicinity of the Uranium Facility in Apollo, Pennsylvania, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, February 2, 1998.
Fioravanti, M., and A. Makhijani, Supplement to Containing the Cold War Mess - IEER's Response to the Department of Energy's Review, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, March 1998.
Makhijani, A., "A Legacy Lost," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 1998.
Makhijani, A., and Hisham Zerriffi, Dangerous Thermonuclear Quest: The Potential of Explosive Fusion Research for the Development of Pure Fusion Weapons, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, July 1998.
Makhijani, A., and Scott Saleska, The Nuclear Power Deception - U.S. Nuclear Mythology from Electricity "Too Cheap to Meter" to "Inherently Safe" Reactors, Apex Press, New York, 1999.
Makhijani, A., "Stepping Back from the Nuclear Cliff," The Progressive 63, no. 8 (August 1999),
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Makhijani, A., Bernd Franke, and Hisham Zerriffi, Preliminary Partial Dose Estimates from the Processing of Nuclear Materials at Three Plants during the 1940s and 1950s, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, September 2000. (Prepared under contract to the newspaper USA Today.)
Makhijani, A., and Bernd Franke, Final Report of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research on the Second Clean Air Act Audit of Los Alamos National Laboratory by the Independent Technical Audit Team, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, December 13, 2000.
Makhijani, A., Plutonium End Game: Managing Global Stocks of Separated Weapons-Usable Commercial and Surplus Nuclear Weapons Plutonium, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, January 2001.
Makhijani, A., Hisham Zerriffi, and Annie Makhijani, "Magical Thinking: Another Go at Transmutation," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, March/April 2001.
Makhijani, A., Ecology and Genetics: An Essay on the Nature of Life and the Problem of Genetic Engineering. New York: Apex Press, 2001.
Makhijani, A., "Burden of Proof," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July/August 2001.
Makhijani, A., "Reflections on September 11, 2001," in Kamla Bhasin, Smitu Kothari, and Bindia Thapar, eds., Voices of Sanity: Reaching Out for Peace, Lokayan, New Delhi, 2001, pp.
59-64.
Makhijani, A., and Michele Boyd, Poison in the Vadose Zone: An examination of the threats to the Snake River Plain aquifer from the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, October 2001.
Makhijani, A., Securing the Energy Future of the United States: Securing the Energy Future of the United States: Oil, Nuclear, and Electricity Vulnerabilities and a Post-September 11, 2001 Roadmap for Action, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, November 2001.
Makhijani, A., and Sriram Gopal, Setting Cleanup Standards to Protect Future Generations: The Scientific Basis of Subsistence Farmer Scenario and Its Application to the Estimation of Radionuclide Soil Action Levels (RSALs) for Rocky Flats, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, December 2001.
Makhijani, A., "Some Factors in Assessing the Response to September 11, 2001," Medicine and Global Survival, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Cambridge, Mass.,
February 2002.
Makhijani, Annie, Linda Gunter, and A. Makhijani, Cogema: Above the Law?: Concerns about the French Parent Company of a U.S. Corporation Set to Process Plutonium in South Carolina.
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A report prepared by Institute for Energy and Environmental Research and Safe Energy Communication Council. Takoma Park, MD, May 7, 2002.
Deller, N., A. Makhijani, and J. Burroughs, eds., Rule of Power or Rule of Law? An Assessment of U.S. Policies and Actions Regarding Security-Related Treaties, Apex Press, New York, 2003.
Makhijani, A., "Nuclear targeting: The first 60 years," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May/June 2003.
Makhijani, A., "Strontium," Chemical & Engineering News, September 8, 2003.
Makhijani, A., and Nicole Deller, NATO and Nuclear Disarmament: An Analysis of the Obligations of the NATO Allies of the United States under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, October 2003.
Makhijani, A., Manifesto for Global Democracy: Two Essays on Imperialism and the Struggle for Freedom, Apex Press, New York, 2004.
Makhijani, A., "Atomic Myths, Radioactive Realities: Why nuclear power is a poor way to meet energy needs," Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental Law 24, no. 1 (2004): 61-72.
Adapted from an oral presentation given on April 18, 2003, at the Eighth Annual Wallace Stegner Center Symposium titled "Nuclear West: Legacy and Future," held at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law."
Makhijani, A., and Michele Boyd, Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside: Threats to the Savannah River from Radioactive Contamination at the Savannah River Site, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, March 2004.
Makhijani, A., and Brice Smith, The Role of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (Du Pont) and the General Electric Company in Plutonium Production and the Associated I-131 Emissions from the Hanford Works, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park.
Maryland, March 30, 2004.
Makhijani, A., Peter Bickel, Aiyou Chen, and Brice Smith, Cash Crop on the Wind Farm: A New Mexico Case Study of the Cost, Price, and Value of Wind-Generated Electricity, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, April 2004.
Makhijani, A., Lois Chalmers, and Brice Smith, Uranium Enrichment: Just Plain Facts to Fuel an Informed Debate on Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, October 15, 2004.
Makhijani, A., and Brice Smith, Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, November 24, 2004.
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Makhijani, A., project director, Examen critique du programme de recherche de l'ANDRA pour déterminer l'aptitude du site de Bure au confinement géologique des déchets haute activité et vie longue: Rapport final, prepared for the Comité Local dInformation et de Suivi du Laboratoire de Bure (CLIS); coordinator: Annie Makhijani; authors: Detlef Appel, Jaak Daemen, George Danko,Yuri Dublyansky, Rod Ewing, Gerhard Jentzsch, Horst Letz, Arjun Makhijani, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, December 2004.
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Lower Bound for Cesium-137 Releases from the Sodium Burn Pit at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, IEER, Takoma Park, Maryland, January 13, 2005. (Authored by A. Makhijani and Brice Smith.)
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Iodine-131 Releases from the July 1959 Accident at the Atomics International Sodium Reactor Experiment, IEER, Takoma Park, Maryland, January 13, 2005. (Authored by A. Makhijani and Brice Smith.)
Makhijani, A., and Brice Smith. Update to Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES. Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, July 5, 2005.
Makhijani, A., "A Readiness to Harm: The Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Complexes,"
Arms Control Today 35 (July/August 2005).
Makhijani, A., Bad to the Bone: Analysis of the Federal Maximum Contaminant Levels for Plutonium-239 and Other Alpha-Emitting Transuranic Radionuclides in Drinking Water, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, August 2005.
Makhijani, A., and Brice Smith, Dangerous Discrepancies: Missing Weapons Plutonium in Los Alamos National Laboratory Waste Accounts, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, April 21, 2006.
Makhijani, Annie, and A. Makhijani, Low-Carbon Diet without Nukes in France: An Energy Technology and Policy Case Study on Simultaneous Reduction of Climate Change and Proliferation Risks, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, May 4, 2006.
Makhijani, Annie, and A. Makhijani. Shifting Radioactivity Risks: A Case Study of the K-65 Silos and Silo 3 Remediation and Waste Management at the Fernald Nuclear Weapons Site, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, August 2006.
Smith, Brice, and A. Makhijani, "Nuclear is Not the Way," Wilson Quarterly.30 (Autumn 2006):
64.
Makhijani, A., Brice Smith, and Michael C. Thorne, Science for the Vulnerable: Setting Radiation and Multiple Exposure Environmental Health Standards to Protect Those Most at Risk, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, October 19, 2006.
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Makhijani, A., Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy, IEER Press, Takoma Park, Maryland; RDR Books, Muskegon, Michigan, 2007.
Makhijani, A., Assessing Nuclear Plant Capital Costs for the Two Proposed NRG Reactors at the South Texas Project Site, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, March 24, 2008.
Makhijani, A., Nuclear isn't necessary, Nature Reports Climate Change 2 (October 2008):
132-134. Commentary Makhijani, A., Energy Efficiency Potential: San Antonio's Bright Energy Future, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, October 9, 2008.
Makhijani, A., The Use of Reference Man in Radiation Protection Standards and Guidance with Recommendations for Change, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, December 2008.
Makhijani, A., Comments of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research on the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commissions Proposed Waste Confidence Rule Update and Proposed Rule Regarding Environmental Impacts of Temporary Spent Fuel Storage, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, February 6, 2009.
Makhijani, A., Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free Energy System in the United States, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, March 4, 2009.
Fundación Ideas para el Progreso, A New Energy Model For Spain: Recommendations for a Sustainable Future (originally: Un nuevo modelo energético para Espana: Recomendaciones para un futuro sostenible), by the Working Group of Foundation Ideas for Progress on Energy and Climate Change, Fundación Ideas , Madrid, May 20, 2009. Arjun Makhijani contributed Section 2.2. The cost of nuclear energy and the problem of waste.
IEER Comments on the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions Rulemaking Regarding the Safe Disposal of Unique Waste Streams Including Significant Quantities of Depleted Uranium, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, October 30, 2009.
Makhijani, A., The Never-Ending Story: Nuclear Fallout in the Marshall Islands, a book review, Nonproliferation Review 17, no. 1 (March 2010):197-204.
Makhijani, A., Detailed Comments on Draft Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement for the Hanford Site, Richland, Washington (TC & WM EIS)
(DOE/EIS-0391), EIS October 2009, March 18, 2010, appears as Attachment 3 IN Harry Smiskin (Yakama Tribal Council). Letter dated March 19, 2010, transmitting the comments of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation on the Draft Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement (Draft TC & WM EIS) for the Hanford Site, Richland, Washington (DOE/EIS-0391-D) to David A. Brockman (Richland Operations Office, 11
U.S. Department of Energy) and Mary Beth Burandt (Office of River Protection, U.S.
Department of Energy).
Makhijani, A., The Mythology and Messy Reality of Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, April 8, 2010.
Makhijani, A., Civil Liability for Nuclear Claims Bill, 2010: Is Life Cheap in India? The Hindu. June 21, 2010 Farmer, J. Doyne, and A. Makhijani, A US nuclear future? Counterpoint: Not wanted, not needed, Nature 467 (23 September 2010): 391-393. Comment.
Makhijani, A., eUtah: A Renewable Energy Roadmap, HEAL Utah, Salt Lake City, December 14, 2010.
Richardson, Bill, with Gay Dillingham, Charles Streeper, and A. Makhijani, Universal Transparency: A Goal for the U.S. at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit, Arms Control Today 41 (January/February 2011): 8-13.
Makhijani, A., OPINION: Spent nuclear fuel pools vulnerable to terrorist attacks: Kyodo News, March 21, 2011. In Japanese and English.
Makhijani, A., project director, Examen Critique du Programme de lAndra sur les Recherches Effectuées dans le Laboratoire Souterrain de Bure et sur la Zone de Transposition Pour Définir une ZIRA: Rapport Final, prepared for the Comité Local dInformation et de Suivi du Laboratoire de Bure (CLIS); coordinator: Annie Makhijani; authors: Jaak Daemen, George Danko, Gerhard Jentzsch, Elena Kalinina, Arjun Makhijani, et Krishan Wahi. Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, 9 mars 2011, avec corrections 20 avril 2011.
Makhijani, A., IEER's Comments on Unique Waste Streams Rulemaking (10 CFR Part 61) -
including Depleted Uranium Disposal. Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, June 18, 2011. Addressed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Makhijani, A. Comments of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research on the Department of Energys Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Disposal of Greater-Than-Class C (GTCC) Low-Level Radioactive Waste and GTCC-Like Waste (DOE/EIS-0375-D),
published in February 2011. (9 June 2011). Included as Attachment 3 to the Yakama Nation Comments on DOE's Greater-Than-Class C Waste Draft EIS (DOE/EIS-0375-D), June 27, 2011.
Makhijani, A., Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) Comments on Docket ID NRC-2010-0267: NRC "Draft Regulatory Basis for a Potential Rulemaking on Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Facilities. Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, 7 July 2011.
Makhijani, A., IEER's Preliminary review of the NRC's July 12, 2011, Recommendations for Enhancing Reactor Safety in the 21st Century: The Near-Term Task Force Review of Insights from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, July 12, 2011 12
Prepared for Friends of the Earth. Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, July 19, 2011.
Makhijani, A., Comments on the July 29, 2011, Draft Report to the Secretary of Energy, of the Blue Ribbon Commission on Americas Nuclear Future (BRC) Prepared by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) on behalf of the Yakama Nation, 30 September 2011. Conveyed to the Blue Ribbon Commission on October 11, 2011.
Makhijani, A., Comments of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research on the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions Draft Policy Statement on Volume Reduction and Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management (76 FR 50500 (August 15, 2011)). Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, October 14, 2011.
Makhijani, A., and Yves Marignac, Sûreté Nucléaire en France Post-Fukushima : Analyse critique des Évaluations complémentaires de sûreté (ECS) menées sur les installations nucléaires françaises aprs Fukushima. Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, and WISE-Paris, Paris, février 2012.
Makhijani, A., and Yves Marignac. In Perspective: Frances Post-Fukushima Safety Assessment Is It Enough?, Nuclear Intelligence Weekly VI (9) (March 2, 2012): 12.
Makhijani, A., Christina Mills, and M. V. Ramana, Renewable Minnesota: A technical and economic analysis of a 100% renewable energy-based electricity sector for Minnesota. Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Takoma Park, Maryland, March 13, 2012.
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