Nautilus Institute at RMIT

The Security and Sustainability Lecture Series

Global Nuclear Futures: An insider's view from Japan
by Tatsujiro Suzuki

About Tatsujiro Suzuki

Tatsujiro Suzuki is a nuclear engineer with long experience of the Japanese nuclear power industry. He works on energy security, nuclear proliferation and nuclear policy.

He is the founder of Peace Pledge and leader of the Plutonium/Spent Fuel Project for Nautilus Institute's East Asia Science and Security Collaborative.

He is Senior Researcher, Socio-Economic Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Tokyo and Professor in the Graduate School of Public Policy at Tokyo University.

He also sits on the board of the Sustainable Energy Institute, a Washington D.C.-based organization committed to improving public awareness of future energy supply and demand options.

Some of Tatsujiro Suzuki's English-language publications

Japan's Nuclear Power Program -Trends and Issues, Tatsujiro Suzuki, Nautilus Institute Asia Energy Security Workshop, Beijing, May 12-17, 2005 [PDF]

http://www.nautilus.org/aesnet/2005/SEPT2805/AESJapanNuclear200505.pdf

Japan Updates and draft EAEF Scenarios, Kae Takase and Tatsujiro Suzuki, East Asia Energy Futures Workshop, Beijing China, May. 12-14, 2004

http://www.nautilus.org/archives/energy/AES2004Workshop/Japan_Takase.ppt#257,2,Outline

Energy Update in Japan, Kae Takase and Tatsujiro Suzuki, Nautilus Institute East Asia Energy Futures Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, Nov. 4-7, 2003 [PDF]

http://www.nautilus.org/archives/energy/eaef/Fourth_EAEF/Takase_Japan_Current.pdf

Energy Security and the Role of Nuclear Power in Japan, Tatsujiro Suzuki, Nautilus Institute Workshop on Regional Collaboration for Energy Futures and Energy Security in China and Northeast Asia, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, June 14-15, 2000 [PDF]

http://www.nautilus.org/archives/energy/eaef/Reg_Japan_final.PDF

Bunn, Matthew, John P. Holdren, Allison Macfarlane, Susan E. Pickett, Atsuyuki Suzuki, Tatsujiro Suzuki and Jennifer Weeks. Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Safe, Flexible, and Cost-Effective Near-Term Approach to Spent Fuel Management. Cambridge, Mass.: Managing the Atom Project, Harvard University and Project on Sociotechnics of Nuclear Energy, University of Tokyo, June 2001.

http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/publication.cfm?program=CORE&ctype=book&item_id=246

Grid-locked: North Korea needs energy. But can the parties negotiating a solution to the nuclear crisis come up with a viable way to plug in the North? Peter Hayes, David von Hippel, Jungmin Kang, Tatsujiro Suzuki, Richard Tanter, and Scott Bruce Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2006 pp. 52-58 (vol. 62, no. 01)

http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=jf06hayes

South Korea's nuclear surprise, Jungmin Kang, Peter Hayes, Li Bin, Tatsujiro Suzuki and Richard Tanter, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 2005 pp. 40-49 (vol. 61, no. 01)

http://www.thebulletin.org/article.php?art_ofn=jf05kang

Light Water Reactors at the Six Party Talks: The Barrier that Makes the Water Flow By Peter Hayes, David von Hippel, Jungmin Kang, Tadahiro Katsuta, Tatsujiro Suzuki, Richard Tanter, Scott Bruce, Policy Forum Online 05-78A: September 21th, 2005

http://www.nautilus.org/fora/security/0578LWR.html

South Korea's Nuclear Mis-Adventures by Jungmin Kang, Tatsujiro Suzuki, Peter Hayes, Nautilus Institute, Northeast Asia Peace and Security Net Special Report: September 10, 2004

http://www.nautilus.org/archives/pub/ftp/napsnet/special_reports/0435-ROK.html