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Sharing the Atom, a special podcast from the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and Argonne National Laboratory, takes you on a journey from the discovery of nuclear fission to the development of global commitments and systems to also use that discovery for good.
Sharing the Atom tells the story of how world leaders came together to develop a political and legal framework that enables the pursuit of nuclear technologies for peaceful use and how that framework is needed more than ever today.
At the center of this story is an international treaty: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT. Though seen by some as primarily a measure to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and to hasten nuclear disarmament, the treaty also created the economic and security conditions for countries to access nuclear technologies for use in agriculture, energy, industry, and, of course, medicine. As demand for various peaceful uses of nuclear technology increases in response to numerous global challenges, the NPT is as relevant as ever in supporting a peaceful and prosperous world.
Voices included in the series: Ghanaian Ambassador Kwaku Aning, Canadian Ambassador John Barrett, Former Canadian official Jim Casterton, Dutch Ambassador Piet de Klerk, Brazilian Ambassador Sérgio Duarte, Doctor Guiseppe Esposito, NNSA Associate Deputy Administrator Rich Goorevich, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, Former U.S. official Lisa Hilliard, NNSA Assistant Deputy Administrator Corey Hinderstein, U.S. Ambassador Laura Holgate, Former President of Urenco USA, Inc.; current NNSA Assistant Associate Deputy Administrator Melissa Mann, ABACC Secretary General Marco Marzo, Former Secretary of Energy Ernie Moniz, Nigerian Ambassador Charles Oko, Former Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman, Author Richard Rhodes, NNSA Deputy Administrator Frank Rose, Former IAEA official Laura Rockwood, Economist Geoffrey Rothwell, Scholar Scott Sagan, U.S. Ambassador Adam Scheinman, Economist Tom Wood
I don't want to live in a world without the NPT.
Corey Hinderstein is deputy administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation in the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
You're telling me that after the Second World War, almost every country in the world came together and said at some point in time during the height of the Cold War, 'We really got to get a handle on this. Rich Goorevich, senior official in NNSA’s Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control. We got to really understand what's going on in the nuclear space. And oh, by the way, we need to make sure that there's a lot of transparency into it and we got to make sure others don't take advantage of the technology in the wrong way?'”
Welcome to Sharing the Atom, a special podcast from the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and Argonne National Laboratory, that takes you on a journey from the discovery of nuclear fission, to the development of global commitments to use that discovery for good.
The NPT is an essential precondition for peaceful nuclear energy, use of peaceful nuclear energy.
Jim Casterton, a former Canadian government official who has worked on nonproliferation policy for more than 40 years.
It provides a multilaterally agreed framework for the pursuit of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
It is also the delivery system for cooperation. Laura Holgate serves as U.S. Ambassador to the Vienna Office of the United Nations and to the International Atomic Energy Agency. It creates an opportunity in which experts can work with member states to identify what their needs are for certain types of nuclear assistance, peaceful nuclear assistance, and then to think about how to... Okay, well what's the best way to deliver that?
Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation, Adam Scheinman.
Our task is to simply do more and maximize the resources that we have available to support peaceful uses of nuclear energy. We need to do it yesterday, we need to do it today, we need to do it tomorrow.
Tune in to Sharing the Atom wherever you get your podcasts or at sharingtheatom.com. Sta is a production of the Department of Energy, the National Nuclear Security Administration and Argonne National Laboratory, in collaboration with SOUND MADE PUBLIC.