Conklin, who teaches the class, said employees still can take the class in person by calling FSS-15, but the online course takes about 10 minutes to complete. All Laboratory employees are required to take the substance abuse course at least once while employed at Los Alamos, Conklin said. For more information, call Conklin at 5-8650. Back to index Climate change and the future of nuclear energy subject of Monday talk Steven Fetter of the University of Maryland's School of Public Affairs talked about climate change and the future of nuclear energy Monday in the J. Robert Oppenheimer Study Center. Some limits on the worldwide consumption of energy from fossil fuels, mainly coal, may be needed because of the greenhouse gases produced.
Fetter writes about technical aspects of security and environmental policy.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on International Security and Arms Control, a fellow of the American Physical Society and a government consultant. He previously was special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy and a fellow at the U.S. State Department's Council on Foreign Relations. But before he spoke about each of the four alternatives, Fetter noted that wind, ocean, hydroelectric and geothermal energy won't be able to replace fossil fuels to feed the world's energy needs. He said that of the four possible alternatives, nuclear energy has the best chance of becoming a viable energy source. Nuclear energy, he said, could become more acceptable politically and environmentally if governments address the issues of safety, cost, waste and proliferation.