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Acknowledgements
This report culminates three-and-a-half years’ work on
the Nuclear Energy Futures (NEF) project. An enterprise
of this length and scale would not have come to fruition
without the backing of several key organizations and the
support of many individuals.
Special thanks must go first to those individuals who
had the foresight to conceive of the project, shape its beginnings
and provide the funding and resources to permit
it to proceed: John English, former CIGI executive
director; Louise Fréchette, chair of the project and CIGI
Distinguished Fellow; CIGI Distinguished Fellow Paul
Heinbecker; Daniel Schwanen of CIGI; and Fen Hampson,
director of the Norman Paterson School of International
Affairs (NPSIA) at Carleton University.
One of the project’s first acts was to commission a series of
research studies that provided the basic data and “feedstock”
for the project’s analytical work. Some of these
studies were published as NEF Papers. I am grateful to
the following authors and contributors: Justin Alger, John
Cadham, Ian Davis, Kenneth Dormuth, David Jackson,
Nathaniel Lowbeer-Lewis, David McLellan, Miles Pomper,
M.V. Ramana, Heather Ray, Mycle Schneider, Aaron Shull,
Sharon Squassoni, Christine Wing and Yun Zhou.
To track the progress of countries seeking civilian nuclear
power, the NEF project developed a unique database that
is now accessible to the public as the Survey of Emerging
Nuclear Energy States (SENES). Several NPSIA masters
students at the Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance
(CCTC) worked on designing, compiling, formatting and
updating SENES and creating it as an ongoing feature of
CIGI’s website in cooperation with CIGI’s IT and design experts.
Thanks go to Ray Froklage for the initial concept and
layout and to Justin Alger, Derek de Jong, Alex Sales, Jonathan
Miller and Paul Davis for their input at various stages.
At CIGI, Som Tsoi provided indispensable technical advice.
Project staff convened workshops and consulted with an
extensive range of stakeholders over the course of the project.
We began with a one-day nuclear-themed contribution
to CIGI’s annual conference CIGI ’07 in Waterloo. This was
followed in December 2007 by a roundtable with Canadian
government and industry representatives organized with
the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
(DFAIT) in Ottawa. We are grateful to DFAIT for its assistance
in organizing this event. In April 2008 the project organized
a conference on nuclear affairs in the Asia-Pacific
region in Sydney, Australia, in close collaboration with the
Lowy Institute for Public Policy. Our thanks go to Lowy’s
Deputy Director Martine Letts and Orietta Melfi for their efforts
in making this event so successful. A second conference
held at CIGI in November 2008 considered various other regions
of the world. CIGI’s events team, led by Colleen Fitzpatrick,
and its media and public affairs staff, led by Neve
Peric, helped make this a watershed event in the life of the
project. In January 2009 a consultation with Canadian nuclear
stakeholders was held at Carleton University organized
by John Cadham, to whom we are most grateful. Informal
consultations with experts and officials included meetings
with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission in Ottawa,
the US Department of Energy and US Department of State
in Washington DC, the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) in Vienna and the Preparatory Commission for the
Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization, also
in Vienna. We are thankful to all of these organizations and
those individuals who helped arrange our appointments.
We are especially indebted to Peter Rickwood, formerly of
the IAEA’s media department, for his assistance above and
beyond the call of duty in arranging appointments and
transport in Vienna, including an enlightening visit to the
IAEA Safeguards Analytical Laboratory at Seibersdorf. In
addition, the IAEA’s Tariq Rauf was his usual helpful and
hospitable self. The project also appreciated the opportunity
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