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Saturday, September 6, 2014

PLEASE VOTE For Nuclear Finalists in the MIT Climate CoLab Competition!

Dear Ms. Kearney,

Due to your role as editor of Nuclear Wire, I wanted to let you know about a nuclear-themed proposal that was recently selected for the finalist round of the MIT Climate CoLab competition. I am a fourth-year PhD student in Nuclear Science & Engineering at MIT, and I co-authored the proposal with two other graduate students - Sam Massey and Sam Shaner (cc'ed) - here at MIT. The Climate CoLab competition is open to the general public - anyone can submit a proposal and anyone can vote on their favorite proposal(s).

The proposal (link) was one of three selected from out of 25+ proposals for the US Government track, and the only nuclear-related proposal to make it to final round of the competition. In particular, our proposal calls for the development of a licensing process for advanced nuclear reactors to accelerate the pace at which nuclear power can be unleashed to tackle climate change in the United States.


We have between now and September 30th to ask people to vote for our proposal on the Climate CoLab website. If enough people vote for the proposal, we will (hopefully) be selected as a finalist to present in November to the "Crowds & Climate" symposium composed of highly distinguished policy-makers, investors, and business people.

Ilavenil Subbiah from MIT NSE suggested that we reach out to you about our proposal as we try to spread the word and raise support from the nuclear energy community. We wondered if our proposal might make a good topic for a Nuclear Wire post? In addition, if you have any other ideas on how best to publicize this and raise support, please let us know.

Thank you for your advice and any help you can give as we try to raise the profile of nuclear energy as the solution to the climate crisis!
Best,

Will Boyd
Nuclear Science & Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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