Nuclear Power After Chernobyl
About the Event:
In the nearly 35 years since Chernobyl, what have we learned? CHF has gathered a panel of nuclear experts to reflect on the story and lessons of the world’s greatest nuclear disaster, moderated by Emma Belcher, Director of Nuclear Challenges for the MacArthur Foundation. Journalist Adam Higginbotham spoke with witnesses and dug through archives to write Midnight in Chernobyl, one of the most thorough accounts of the incident, while MIT professor Kate Brown’s Manual for Survival highlights the underreported environment fallout and health impacts of the nuclear event. Higginbotham and Brown will be joined by Gregory B. Jaczko, former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who will speak about how little the US nuclear industry learned from Chernobyl, and the steps that need to be taken to prevent another disaster of this scale.
Preorder your copy of Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator, and Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future through the CHF box office and save 20%.
The program is generously underwritten by Bill and Penny Obenshain.
Adam Higginbotham
Adam Higginbotham writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, GQ, and Smithsonian. He lives in New York City.
Gregory B. Jaczko
Dr. Gregory B. Jaczko served as Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2009-2012, and as a commissioner from 2005...
Kate Brown
Kate Brown is Professor of History in the Science, Technology and Society Department of MIT. She is the author of the prize-winnin...
Emma Belcher
Emma Belcher leads the MacArthur Foundation’s Nuclear Challenges Program and serves on the advisory committee of N Square—a networ...
