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Dr.ir. Behnam van Taebi

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Behnam Taebi is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at Delft University of Technology, and a Research Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His research interests are in energy ethics, responsible innovation and nuclear ethics. He studied Material Science and Engineering (2006) and received his Ph.D. in Philosophy of Technology (2010). Taebi is working on his Veni-Research on ‘ethics and governance of multinational nuclear waste repositories’. He is the leading editor of a volume on “The Ethics of Nuclear Energy” (under contract with Cambridge University Press) and a special issue of Journal of Risk Research on “Socio-technical Challenges of Nuclear Power Production.”

Taebi is currently based in Cambridge (Massachusetts), where he spends a sabbatical year at Harvard University. He is involved in in the Belfer Center’s ‘Project on Managing the Atom’ and ‘International Security Program’.

Key publications

  • Taebi, B. and S. Roeser, eds. Forthcoming. The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Risk, Justice and Democracy in a post-Fukushima Era Under contract with Cambridge University Press.
  • Taebi, B. and I. R. Van de Poel, eds. Forthcoming. Socio-technical challenges of nuclear power production and waste disposal in the post-Fukushima Era. Special Issue of Journal of Risk Research.
  • Taebi, B., A. Correljé, E. Cuppen, M. Dignum and U. Pesch. 2014. Responsible innovation and an endorsement of public values: the need for interdisciplinary research. Journal of Responsible Innovation 1 (1): 118-124.
  • Taebi, B., S. Roeser and I. Van de Poel. 2012. The ethics of nuclear power: social experiments, intergenerational justice, and emotions. Energy Policy (51): 202-206.
  • Taebi, B. 2011. The Morally Desirable Option for Nuclear Power Production. Philosophy & Technology 24 (2): 169-192.
  • Taebi, B. and A.C. Kadak. 2010. Intergenerational Considerations Affecting the Future of Nuclear Power: Equity as a Framework for Assessing Fuel Cycles. Risk Analysis 30 (9):1341-1362.
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