Areas of Expertise:

Clean Energy, Climate Change, Energy Economics, Energy Security, Environment, Environmental Policy, Hydropower, Nuclear, Power Sector, Regulation, Transmission

Additional Areas of Expertise:

Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR), for ionizing radiation, as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA)

B.S. Biophysics - Harvey Mudd College, 1973. Ph.D. Radiation Biophysics - SUNY Buffalo, 1984. Dr. Nelson has been an advocate for the continued safe operation of PG&E's Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) for over a decade. Dr. Nelson was one of the founders in 2013 of Californians for Green Nuclear Power, Inc., (CGNP) a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational corporation. He currently serves in a volunteer capacity as CGNP's Legal Assistant and Government Liaison. CGNP is an adverse California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Intervenor, advocating for the public interest in PG&E's controversial CPUC Application to voluntarily and prematurely retire DCPP in 2025. CGNP anticipates prevailing on merits in this proceeding once the case is before the State of California Appeals Court system. Dr. Nelson has served as a professor of courses in science and engineering at three colleges and a university.

Recent Comments by Gene Nelson

• "What is keeping fossil fuel interests from recognizing their inter-generational responsibility of maintaining an adequate supply of hydrocarbon (an"
  Guiding Principles for Sound Energy Policy
• "Three main principles: 1. Energy choices should be zero -emissions and dispatchable (not zero net emissions.) 2. Using the energy source in item 1"
  Guiding Principles for Sound Energy Policy
• "The facts don’t support your assertions regarding distributed generation. Puerto Rico’s solar and wind installations were trashed by the hurricane. On"
  Climate Perspectives and The Future of Energy
• "Some of the particularly apocalyptic outcomes that some advocates e anticipate diminish their credibility. Climate change is real. However, such conce"
  Climate Perspectives and The Future of Energy
• "The facts don't support your assertions regarding distributed generation. Puerto Rico's solar and wind installations were trashed by the hurricane. "
  Climate Perspectives and The Future of Energy
• "Waste from solar and wind power installations will likely be mostly landfilled as it is not practical to recycle a large fraction of the volume that w"
  Climate Perspectives and The Future of Energy
• "Nuclear power operates independently of California's aging and vulnerable bulk natural gas transmission and storage system."
  Climate Perspectives and The Future of Energy
• "Land area is at a premium in states such as California. We must include energy density and land-use enviornmental impacts in the energy planning and e"
  Climate Perspectives and The Future of Energy
• "1) Is California’s timeline to reaching carbon neutrality realistic? Maybe. Californians for Green Nuclear Power, Inc. (CGNP) an ind"
  California: Carbon-Free by 2045?