Speakers Bureau: Nuclear Energy

Argonne speaking topics related to nuclear energy include:

Nuclear Energy: What They Don't Say on the News – Not only is nuclear power safe; it is green. Speakers demystify the reactor and clarify nuclear energy's role in modern power-generating technology.

Nuclear Medicine: The Good Stuff – From CAT scans to therapies, radiation, X-rays, and radioactive elements all contribute to improving health care.

Safeguarding Nuclear Materials – Nuclear reactor sites in other parts of the world are often associated with materials that could fuel nuclear weapons. Argonne is helping many former Soviet nations develop and implement technologies and methods to keep their nuclear materials safe.

Decommissioning Reactors – When nuclear reactors have ended their useful lives, what can be done with them? How safe are they? Argonne has developed and tested dozens of technologies and procedures that can help clean up retired reactors and their sites, make them safe, and return them to public or private use.

Managing Nuclear Waste: Making It Safe – How dangerous is radioactive waste? Can it be packaged and transported safely to long-term disposal sites? How do the health and environmental risks of transporting it compare with leaving it in place? Argonne technologies address these important questions.

Nuclear Power in the Global Community – With many countries embracing nuclear power as a long-term source of electricity to fuel economic growth and development, even as its use declines in the United States, will the mid-21st century find the U.S. purchasing safe, state-of-the-art reactors from foreign governments? Argonne scientists are helping establish effective programs outside the U.S. and caring for old reactors in places like eastern Europe.

Reactor Design for the 21st Century: Fulfilling Energy Needs – When you think of nuclear reactors, do you think of tools to make plutonium for bombs? Or generators fueled with enriched uranium – also suitable for explosions? If so, you're not thinking of today's reactors. They generate power, not weapons – and they won't melt down. A look at reactors being designed today.

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Please note: Speakers are engaged full-time at Argonne, so please give us at least three-week's notice before your event.