Writing

Thought Leadership

Essays and analyses on nuclear energy, regulatory reform, and clean energy policy.

Project

Nuclear Waste Is a Wicked Problem

Nuclear waste is not a broken engineering problem. It is a wicked governance problem. Wicked problems do not yield to definitive solutions.

Breakthrough Institute · 2026
Radiation & Risk

Two New Papers Are Wrong About Cancer Risk from Nuclear Plants

Two recent papers claim to find cancer risk from living near nuclear plants. Both fail on methodology — and the errors follow a predictable pattern that no sample size can fix.

Breakthrough Institute · 2026
Regulatory Reform

The NRC's Problem Isn't Caution. It's Architecture.

Why the Nuclear Regulatory Commission needs structural redesign, not just process improvement, to enable the next generation of clean energy technology.

Breakthrough Institute · 2026
Decision Science

SCOPE: Structuring Choices for Outcomes, Priorities, and Envelopes

Introducing a decision architecture framework for regulatory commissions — supporting interactive weight exploration during decision conferencing.

2025
Project

Build Nuclear Now

A national campaign mobilizing Americans to call for regulatory and legislative change to accelerate advanced reactor deployment.

Build Nuclear Now · 2024