M.V. Ramana

M. V. Ramana is a physicist who works at the Nuclear Futures Laboratory and the Program on Science and Global Security, both at Princeton University, on the future of nuclear power in the context of climate change and nuclear disarmament. Ramana is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials and the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board.[1]

Ramana has written many papers and is the author of The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India, to be published later in 2011 by Penguin Books.[1][2][3][4] He is co-editor of Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2003) and author of Bombing Bombay? Effects of Nuclear Weapons and a Case Study of a Hypothetical Explosion (Cambridge, MA: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1999).[5]

M. V. Ramana obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Boston University in 1994 and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Physics, University of Toronto and the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6]

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  1. ^ a b M. V. Ramana (July 2011, Vol. 67 No. 4). "Nuclear power and the public". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. http://bos.sagepub.com/content/67/4/43.abstract. 
  2. ^ M.V. Ramana (2009, Vol. 34). Nuclear Power: Economic, Safety, Health, and Environmental Issues of Near-Term Technologies, Annual Review of Environment and Resources.
  3. ^ Divya Badami Rao and M. V. Ramana (3 July 2008). "The Indian approach to climate and energy policy". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/the-indian-approach-to-climate-and-energy-policy. 
  4. ^ Ashwin Kumar and M. V. Ramana (21 July 2009). "The safety inadequacies of India's fast breeder reactor". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/the-safety-inadequacies-of-indias-fast-breeder-reactor. 
  5. ^ IPFM members
  6. ^ M.V. Ramana, Princeton