- Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen
Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen is a consultant in chemistry and energy systems with more than thirty years experience in technology assessment.
Storm van Leeuwen received his Masters in Science, physical chemistry, at the Technical University Eindhoven. He is a senior scientist at Ceedata Consultants. He also develops courses for chemistry teachers for the Open University at Heerlen. He is the secretary of the Dutch Association of the Club of Rome. His two fields of expertise are technology assessment and life cycle analyses of energy systems, focussed on sustainability aspects. He published numerous reports and articles on various topics related to energy and environment. [cite web
url=http://www.stormsmith.nl/report20050803/aboutauthors.pdf
title=About the authors (Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen and Philip Bartlett Smith)
date=2005-08-03
language=English
accessdate=2008-04-26 ]He is best known for the comprehensive, yet controversial paper "Nuclear power the energy balance" that he wrote with Philip Smith, where they analyzed the energy payback from the entire nuclear power system. They concluded that the major parameter determining the energy balance was the grade of the uranium ore, [cite web
url= http://www.stormsmith.nl
title= "Nuclear Energy: the Energy Balance"
author= Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen | coauthors= Philip Smith
date= 30 July 2005 | format=PDF |work= |publisher=
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accessdate= 2008-01-18 ] despite glaring inconsistencies with theRössing and Olympic Dam mines energy usage. [cite web
url=http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf11.html
title=Energy Analysis of Power Systems
author=
publisher=World Nuclear Association
date=2006-03
language=English
accessdate=2008-04-30]Storm van Leeuwen also presented this work as part of another controversial paper "Secure Energy? Civil Nuclear Power, Security and Global Warming", published by the
Oxford Research Group , claiming that nuclear power is not a long-term reducer of greenhouse gas emissions. [cite web
url=http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?id=29589
title=Secure Energy? Civil Nuclear Power, Security and Global Warming
author=Frank Barnaby, Keith Barnham, James Kemp, Paul Rogers, Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen
publisher=Oxford Research Group (ORG), UK
isbn=978-0-9552846-1-8
date=2007-03
pages=56
accessdate=2008-04-26] [cite web
url=http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/mar2007/db20070326_366468.htm
title=New Debate Over Nuclear Option
date=2007-03-26
publisher=Business Week
author=Moira Herbst
accessdate=2008-04-26]Storm van Leeuwen is recognized by Open Democracy as one of their notable authors. [cite web
url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Jan_Willem_Storm_van_Leeuwen.jsp
title=Author Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen
publisher=OpenDemocracy
accessdate=2008-04-26 ]ee also
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Environmental effects of nuclear power
*Peak uranium
*Helen Caldicott References
External references
*cite web
url=http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=633521
title=The real cost of power
publisher=The Times
author=
date=2007-11-24
accessdate=2008-04-26
*cite web
url=http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041907EA.shtml
title=Divisions Surface Over Nuclear Option
author=Julio Godoy
publisher=Truthout.org
date=2007-04-19
accessdate=2008-04-26
*cite web
url=http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Magazines/Bulletin/Bull471/nuclear_reactions.pdf
title=Nuclear Reactions - Nuclear Power for electricity generation keeps generating heated debate...
author=Helen Caldicott and Nikolas D. Kristof
publisher=IAEA
date=2005-09
accessdate=2008-04-26
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