A Civil Super-Manhattan Project in Nuclear Research for a Safer and Prosperous World

Didier Sornette
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Didier Sornette: ETH Zurich and Swiss Finance Institute

No 15-14, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper Series from Swiss Finance Institute

Abstract: Humankind is confronted with a "nuclear stewardship curse'', facing the prospect of needing to manage nuclear products over long time scales in the face of the short-time scales of human polities. I propose a super Manhattan-type effort to rejuvenate the nuclear energy industry to overcome the current dead-end in which it finds itself, and by force, humankind has trapped itself in. A 1% GDP investment over a decade in the main nuclear countries could boost economic growth with a focus on the real world, epitomised by nuclear physics/chemistry/engineering/economics with well defined targets. By investing vigorously to obtain scientific and technological breakthroughs, we can create the spring of a world economic rebound based on new ways of exploiting nuclear energy, both more safely and more durably.

Keywords: social instabilities; nuclear stewardship; innovation; investment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N70 O30 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2015-04
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