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04 February 2010
Centre Launches Nuclear Energy Futures Report
Centre Director Trevor Findlay and Project Chair Mme Louise Fréchette presented the summary project findings and recommendations of the Nuclear Energy Futures Project at a luncheon hosted at IDRC by the CCTC and CIGI. The report, summary and action plan can be found here.
21 January 2010
Seminar by Dr John Burroughs on Nuclear Disarmament
Dr John Burroughs presented on the prospects for progress on nuclear disarmament at the NPT Review Conference in May 2010. The talk was the first in a new speaker series titled the New Security Challenges Colloquium, hosted in collaboration with the Centre for Security and Defence Studies (CSDS).
16 December 2009
Presentation at Wilton Park Annual Conference
Dr Trevor Findlay presented the preliminary findings and recommendations of the Nuclear Energy Futures Project to the annual Wilton Park conference on nuclear nonproliferation.
The conference, entitled “Nuclear Non-Proliferation and the 2010 Review”, considered "the growing use of civilian nuclear power" and its effects on nonproliferation. Dr Findlay's presentation addressed the likelihood, character and scale of a potential revival, as well as the barriers to one.
His presenation slides have been made available here.
11 Nov 2009
Second Centre Submission to ICNND
The International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (ICNND) has recently released a research paper by CCTC researcher Justin Alger and director Trevor Findlay titled ‘The costs of nuclear disarmament’. This study is the first to examine the economic costs of complete nuclear disarmament and a subsequent verification regime.
19 May 2009
Centre Submission to ICNND
The CCTC has recently submitted a research paper, ‘Giving Up the Bomb: Motivations and Incentives’, to the International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament (ICNND). The paper analyzes why so many states have historically chosen to forego or reverse decisions to pursue nuclear weapons. The paper is intended to provide important background material to aid the Commission, co-sponsored and co-chaired by Australia and Japan, in its aims to reinvigorate international efforts on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. It joins a host of other research papers written by prominent experts in the nuclear field, available on the Commission’s website. It was written by NPSIA student Paul Davis.
05 May 2009
Survey of Emerging Nuclear Energy States (SENES) Released
The CCTC is proud to announce that our Survey of Emerging Nuclear Energy States (SENES) is now publically available online, accessible here. SENES monitors the progress of countries aspiring to civilian nuclear energy in order to assess the size and characteristics of the purported nuclear revival. It is the result of the work of five Research Assistants at the CCTC over the course of the past year.
This survey is the first of its kind as no other research project has yet empirically analyzed the progress of aspiring nuclear states. SENES is a continuing project and will be updated as new information becomes available.
16 March 2009
Students Receive Arms Control Research Awards
NPSIA students Justin Alger and Katherine Simonds have recently been awarded the Graduate Research Award for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. The award is offered jointly by the Simons Foundation and the International Security Research and Outreach Programme (ISROP) to support research and writing leading to the completion of a major research essay or thesis in the field of disarmament, arms control and nonproliferation. The award provides students with the opportunity to present their work to officials of Foreign Affairs and International Trade at a special consultation in Fall 2009. Only four of these awards are given out to Master’s students across Canada each year.
Justin and Katherine are also recipients of the William Barton Award in Arms Control and Disarmament, awarded by Carleton University to students pursuing academic research into arms control and disarmament. Justin is the Administrator and Researcher for the Canadian Centre for Treaty Compliance (CCTC), based at Carleton, currently working on the Nuclear Energy Futures Project. Both students are being supervised in their research by NPSIA Professor and CCTC Director Trevor Findlay.
2 March 2009
CCTC Director makes submission to Australian Parliament on nuclear disarmament
Dr Trevor Findlay recently made a submission to the Australian Parliament on how nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament treaties might be made more comprehensive and effective and the role that Australia might play in this effort. Click here to view the submission.
Update: On 17 September 2009, the Australian Joint Standing Committee on Treaties tabled its report on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. Click here to read the final report.
10 March 2009
Katherine Simonds interviewed by Carleton Now
Katherine Simonds, a second-year NPSIA student, traveled to Geneva and The Hague from 1-5 December 2008 to attend the Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention and the 13th Session of the Conference of States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention. She was later interviewed regarding her experiences and research by Melissa Nisbett of Carleton Now. Click here to read the article.
1 March 2009
Departure of NEF Project Research Assistant
Raymond Froklage, research assistant at the CCTC, has recently accepted a position at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). Ray has been a research assistant with the Centre since 2007. The Centre would like to thank him for all of his hard work, and in particular his dedication towards our soon to be released Survey of Emergent Nuclear Energy States (SENES). We wish him all the best at his new position.
Jonathan Miller has been hired as his replacement. Jonathan is an MA candidate at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.
1 February 2009
New Centre Administrator and Researcher Appointed
After three years as the Centre’s Administrator and Researcher, Scott Lofquist-Morgan has left to join the Department of National Defence. The Centre is grateful for Scott’s loyal and enthusiastic service to the Centre and wishes him well in his new career. Scott is a graduate of the Masters program at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs.
The Centre is pleased to announce that Justin Alger, a Research Assistant at the Centre and currently a final-year Master’s student at NPSIA, has been appointed Administrator and Researcher as of 1 February 2009.
30 January 2009
Canadian nuclear stakeholders meeting
The CCTC hosted, as part of its Nuclear Energy Futures project with CIGI, a workshop with Canadian stakeholders in the nuclear industry to discuss the role of nuclear energy in Canada in the coming years. The day’s agenda included consideration of the potential drivers of and constraints on a possible nuclear energy revival in Canada, the status of industry infrastructure, the challenges posed by domestic and international competition and the key public policy issues surrounding the industry. Participants included a range of industry representatives, nuclear regulators, financial market analysts, civil society and academics.
Canadian stakeholders in the nuclear industry meet to discuss the role of nuclear energy in Canada.
