Professor of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering

Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Areas of Expertise

Global and regional uranium resources; the future of nuclear explosives holdings; the security implications of global and regional energy economics.

Biography

Clifford E. Singer is Professor of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois, and is currently co-director of the College of Engineering Initiative on Energy and Sustainability Engineering.

Singer received a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois, a Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. He subsequently did research in plasma physics, advanced space propulsion, and the computational simulation of thermonuclear plasma performance at the University of London, Princeton University, and the University of Illinois. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institutes for Strömungsforschung and Plasmaphysik at Göttingen and Garching in Germany and is a member of American Physical Society and the American Nuclear Society.

Singer has worked extensively on issues related to the cessation of production of nuclear materials for nuclear explosives programs, including related matters dealing with outer space and the future of nuclear explosives stockpiles. He is currently supervising research on global energy economics with emphasis on spent nuclear fuel management, sources of energy for transportation, and greenhouse gas emissions. Prior to completing a recent sabbatical leave at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Center for Technology and Security Policy in Washington, DC, he was the Director of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS).

Selected Publications

Articles or Book Chapters:

Singer, C. and H. von Brevern, “Uranium Price vs. Cumulative Use,’’ Nuclear Technology 176 (2011) 227-237; available in extended form as University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security Report ACDIS SIN:1.2010 at http://www.acdis.uiuc.edu/Research/ResReports.shtml

Singer, Clifford, and William R. Roy, “Spent Fuel and Waste Disposal”. Nuclear Energy Encyclopedia (Steven B. Krivit and Jay H. Lehr, editors) c. 8 pages (John Wiley and Sons: Hoboken, NJ, 2011).

Singer, C.E., “How Can National Missile Defense Best Enhance Security?” Defense and Security Analysis 18, 293-301 (2002).

Singer, Clifford E., “The Last Major International War?,” Swords and Ploughshares XV #2, 3-6 (Fall 2003), University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security.

Singer, C. E., Editor, “The New Nuclear Arms Control Environment: Trip Report and Project Conclusions,” University of Illinois ACDIS Occasional Paper, 53 pages (2002).

Singer, Clifford E., “Coerced Disarmament of Iraq,” Swords and Ploughshares XIV #3, 5-6 (Winter 2002), University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security.

Singer, C.E., T.S.G. Rethinaraj, S. Addy, D. Durham, M. Musik, M. Khanna, B. Kuehl, J. Luo, W. Quimio, K. Rajendran, D. Ramirez, J. Qiang, J. Scheffran, T.N. Tiouririne, J. Zhang. Probability Distributions for Carbon Emissions and Atmospheric Response, Climatic Change, June 2008 (vol. 88:3-4).

Scheffran, Jürgen, and Clifford Singer “Energy and Security: From Conflict to Cooperation,” Bull. International Network of Engineers and Scientists Against Proliferation, 24, (2004).

Singer, Clifford, James Walsh, and Dean Wilkening (rapporteurs), “Reinventing Multilateralism,” ACDIS and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, report on May 2004 Conference, 52 pp.

Singer, C. E. and A. Sands, “Keys to Unblocking Multilateral Nuclear Arms Control,” University of Illinois ACDIS Occasional Paper, 9 pages (2002). Translations available in French, German, Chinese, and Russian.

see more/less

Books or Edited Collections:

Singer, C.E. Energy and International War: From Babylon to Baghdad and Beyond (World Scientific Press, in press).

Rethinaraj, T. S. G., and C. E. Singer, Historical Energy Statistics (under contract to World Scientific Press).

Link(s)

http://npre.illinois.edu/directory/faculty/clifford-singer

Contact Information

Office

111D Talbot Laboratory

Mailing Address

104 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801
MC-234

Phone

(217) 333-1814

Fax

(217) 333-2906

Email

csinger[AT]illinois[DOT]edu