Professor Gordon MacKerron is Director of the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, having previously directed the Sussex Energy Group from 2005 until 2008.

This talk will explore the role nuclear power could have in our attempts to move toward a low carbon economy.

Professor MacKerron is an economist specialising in energy and environmental economics. His main research interests are in the economics and politics of short-term and long-term energy policy, especially in relation to sustainability and the possible trade-offs between different energy policy objectives. He focuses on the analysis of electricity systems, especially the economics, regulation and politics of nuclear power.

Professor MacKerron has frequently been called to advise the government on energy related subjects and is currently Director at the Science and Technology Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex.

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