Small Modular Reactors, Carbon Capture: The wrong resources for Colorado’s energy transition was published in October 2025 by David Schlissel and Dennis Wamsted with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). Find the November 6, 2025 webinar recording below, David Schlissel’s powerpoint on Small Modular Reactors here, and Dennis Wamsted’s powerpoint on natural gas with carbon capture here.

Philseo Kim, Allison Macfarlane, August 21, 2025, 
Challenges of small modular reactors: A comprehensive exploration of economic and waste uncertainties associated with U.S. small modular reactor designs. Progress in Nuclear Energy, Vol. 190.

Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis (IEEFA), Dennis Wamsted and David Schlissel, November 2024. Nuclear hype ignores high costs, long timelines.

M. V. Ramana, Naomi Oreskes, Amory Lovins, Tim Judson, October 2024. Press Briefing: Why Latest Nuclear Revival Is Already Doomed

R. Scott Kemp, Edwin S. Lyman, Mark R. Deinert, Richard L. Garwin, and Frank N. Von Hippel, June 6, 2024. The weapons potential of high-assay low-enriched uranium: Recent promotion of new reactor technologies appears to disregard decades-old concerns about nuclear proliferation. Science. Vol. 384, Issue 6700, pp. 1071-1073.

Stephanie Cooke, April 2024. The Fantasy of Reviving Nuclear Energy. The New York Times April 18, 2024

Sharon Squassoni, April 2024. New Nuclear Energy: Assessing the National Security Risks. The George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs.