Published Works
Reckoning with the wicked problems of nuclear technology: pedagogical philosophy, design, and method underlying a course on nuclear technology, policy, and society
By Aditi Verma
Frontiers in Nuclear Engineering, August 8, 2024
A Sociotechnical Readiness Level Framework for the Development of Advanced Nuclear Technologies
By Aditi Verma and Todd Allen
Nuclear Technology, July 11, 2024
Engagement in Practice: Building Community Engagement into a First-year Design-Build-Test Course
By Katie Snyder and Aditi Verma
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Integrating Community-Engaged Research and Energy Justice in Design Pedagogy: Reflections on a First-Year Undergraduate Design Course
By Aditi Verma and Katie Snyder
2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Investigation of potential sites for coal-to-nuclear energy transitions in the United States
By Muhammad R Abdussami, Kevin Daley, Gabrielle Hoelzle, and Aditi Verma
Energy Reports 11, June 2024
Connecting Campus and Community: applying virtual reality technologies to facilitate energy justice and emerging technology literacy
By Aditi Verma, Sara Eskandari, Kellie Grasman, and Katie Snyder
The Future on Engineering Education Conference, June 23, 2024
A tale of two epistemologies: the evolution of nuclear safety in the US and French nuclear industry
By Aditi Verma
Entreprises et histoire, 48-69
US Leadership: Training the Future Global Nuclear Workforce
By Todd Allen, Alan Ahn, Rowen Price, and Ryan Norman
This article emphasizes the importance of the U.S. training and supporting the development of nuclear workforces globally, in order to strengthen U.S. influence, ensure the adoption of U.S. nuclear technologies, and advance national security, climate, and energy goals while countering the influence of countries like China and Russia.
Nuclear waste Educator’s workshop: What and how do we teach about nuclear waste?
By Haruko Murakami Wainwright, Brian A Powell, Megan Elisabeth Hoover, Ali Ayoub, Milos Atz, Craig Benson, RA Borrelli, Denia Djokic, Carol Ann Eddy-Dilek, Dinara Ermakova, Robert Hayes, Kathryn Higley, Steven Krahn, Leonel Lagos, Sheldon Landsberger, Christina Leggett, Monica Regalbuto, William Roy, Lindsay Shuller-Nickles, and Rodney C Ewing
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, December 2023
What Do We Mean When We Write About Ethics, Equity, And Justice In Engineering Design?
By Madhurima Das, Gillian Roeder, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, Maria C. Yang, and Aditi Verma
Designers must consider ethics, equity, and justice in their work, although these terms are minimally present in engineering design literature. The presence of these terms is increasing, and motivations include sustainability and education. An expanded design justice framework is proposed.
Journal of Mechanical Design, June 12, 2023
Young Carla
By Todd Allen, Aditi Verma, and Sola Talabi
This article outlines a step-by-step guide to nuclear innovation policy, focusing on how federal policies can help innovators like Carla, a hypothetical nuclear engineer, secure investments, test ideas, and build a demonstration reactor, while addressing challenges through targeted policy solutions.
Russia’s Nuclear Power Hegemony
By Jessica Lovering and Håvard Halland
The West Is Dependent on Moscow for More Than Just Gas and Oil
Foreign Affairs, June 8, 2022
Reimagining Nuclear Engineering
By Aditi Verma and Denia Djokić
To heal the divide over nuclear energy, the field needs to move from advocacy to understanding.
Issues in Science & Technology 37, no. 3 (Spring 2021): 64–69
Nuclear energy, ten years after Fukushima
By Aditi Verma , Ali Ahmad, and Francesca Giovannini
Amid the urgent need to decarbonize, the industry that delivers one-tenth of global electricity must consult the public on reactor research, design, regulation, location and waste.
Nature Vol 591, 199-201 (2021)
Ten years after Fukushima: The experts examine lessons learned and forgotten
By Ali Ahmad, Aditi Verma, and Francesca Giovannini
The commentary series is more than just a distillate of the views that were presented during the conference by some of the world’s leading thinkers, scholars and practitioners on the 10th anniversary of Fukushima.
The Bulletin
A policy pathway for nuclear justice
By Suzanne Baker, Jessica Lovering, and Rachel Slaybaugh, with guest contributor, Denia Djokic
To align the nuclear sector with the broader Justice40 initiative, federal policies should center communities and address past injustices.
Good Energy Collective
Accidents, paradoxes and the epistemic future of nuclear policy
By Aditi Verma
The nuclear community must learn to imagine the unimaginable and sit with uncomfortable facts.
Inkstick
Nuclear Technology special issue
By Aditi Verma, Stéphanie Tillement & Frédéric Garcias, Sonja D. Schmid, Markku Lehtonen, Mariia Iakovleva, Jeremy Rayner & Ken Coates, Başak Saraç-Lesavre, Vincent Ialenti, Thomas R. Wellock, Elsa Gisquet, Sophie Beauquier & Emilie Poulain, Kohta Juraku & Shin-Etsu Sugawara, Eri Kanamori, Thomas Kaiserfeld & Arne Kaijser, Céline Parotte, and Lisa Marshall
To expand and reframe how we understand familiar problems and areas of work in the nuclear sector ranging from the very design of reactors to the disposition of nuclear waste.
Nuclear Technology, Volume 207, 2021 – Issue 9: Special issue on the Nuclear, Humanities, and Social Science Nexus
A call for antiracist action and accountability in the US nuclear community
By Katlyn M. Turner, Lauren J. Borja, Denia Djokić, Madicken Munk, and Aditi Verma
The nuclear community must go beyond acknowledgement alone if it genuinely aims to dismantle long-standing structural inequalities.
The Bulletin
Decolonization of nuclear weapons
By Aditi Verma
In order for the nuclear technology sector… to be more balanced and decolonised, work is needed to eradicate epistemic and institutional segregation and to establish epistemic and institutional justice.
Art News
What can nuclear engineering learn from design research
By Aditi Verma
This study is the first systematic exploration of the reactor design process and choices. It applies methodological and theoretical tools developed within the mechanical engineering design studies field to the study of nuclear reactor design.
Nuclear Engineering and Design, Volume 379, 2021, 111114, ISSN 0029-5493
Leading Scientists and Catholic Leaders Call on President Biden to Work for a World Free of the Nuclear Threat
By Aditi Verma
We are united in calling on President Biden to reduce the nuclear threat as our nation works with others for a world without nuclear weapons.
News, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center
The TPNW, Equity, and Transforming the Nuclear Community: An Interview with Nuclear Scholar Dr. Aditi Verma
By Laura Grego
Antiracist work and action has to be part of the epistemic and institutional constitution of the nuclear field and community.
Nuclear Weapons, All Things Nuclear
The Importance of Nuclear Power in Our Energy Mix
By Gary Was and Todd Allen
The goal for protecting the climate is simple. Stop putting carbon into the atmosphere and remove the carbon already added. If the “climate crisis is the greatest challenge facing the world today” as Todd Larsen argues, why would we not use all available tools to protect the climate? (There is a second piece associated with this article.)
New Labor Forum
Nuclear power has been top-down and hierarchical. These women want to change that.
By David Roberts
A new women-led, progressive energy group will devote itself to nuclear policy.
Vox
Seeing Different: A Visual Series
By Tali Perelman, Tim Dougherty, Brittany Zajic, and Suzanne Hobbs Baker
An abstract idea of a better future will continue to be abstract unless we give it shape. The images in Seeing Different begin to do just that.
The Breakthrough Institute
How to Reinvigorate US Commercial Nuclear Energy
By Steven E. Aumeier and Todd Allen
Sixty years into the civilian nuclear age, the United States must decide whether it wants to reestablish leadership in this important technology market, or watch its role continue to diminish.
Issues in Science and Technology
Breaking the Nuclear Box: What Frank Lloyd Wright Can Teach Us About Engaging the Community to Successfully Deploy Advanced Nuclear Technologies
By Todd Allen and Kaylin Dines
This piece discusses how Frank Lloyd Wright’s philosophy of “breaking the box” in architecture can inspire the nuclear industry to rethink its community engagement strategies, emphasizing that open communication and strategic outreach are essential for deploying advanced nuclear technologies in communities and achieving U.S. climate goals.
Third Way
A Step-by-Step Guide to Nuclear Innovation Policy
This article outlines a step-by-step guide to nuclear innovation policy, focusing on how federal policies can help innovators like Carla, a hypothetical nuclear engineer, secure investments, test ideas, and build a demonstration reactor, while addressing challenges through targeted policy solutions.
Third Way