"The most important innovation challenge we face" The Science Show — Australian Broadcasting Corporation April 20, 2013 interview
"How Should We Deal With Nuclear Waste?" Wall Street Journal April 11, 2013 read discussion.
“Energy Innovation And Nuclear Power” Climate Change. Challenges. Solutions. presented by Cognoscenti, wbur transcript. March 2013.
“Energy and Building Innovation” A Commonwealth Club panel. January 2013.
“How to Innovate Energy innovation.” An MIT Enterprise Forum book chat on iTunes. December 10, 2012
WGBH “Innovation HUB with Kara Miller”, January 27, 2012 interview
“On the Future of Nuclear Energy”, TEDx New England, Boston, MA, November 1, 2011
(with Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie) watch presentation
“Energy Innovation: Overhaul or Tweak?” Panel discussion, Climate One Television, the Commonwealth Club,
San Francisco, CA, November 3, 2011 listen to the discussion
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“In the war against climate change, look to the states”, Boston Globe
“Why Fukushima Won't Kill Nuclear Power”, Wall Street Journal
“The High Costs of Copenhagen”, Wall Street Journal
“Clearing the Path Toward a Nuclear Renaissance”, Boston Globe
“Il Destino Energetico”, La Repubblica
“How to Prosper in a Globalizing Economy?” Irish Times
“China's Energy Dilemma,” Technology Review
“New England's Potential as an Energy Giant,” Boston Globe
“A Creative Economy,” Industry Week
"Energy Innovation in a Time of Fiscal Austerity and Policy Uncertainty".
Panel discusssion. Bipartisan Policy Center. February 7, 2012. Watch video
Richard Lester on Nuclear Leadership Challenges after Fukushima. listen to audio podcast. download audio podcast.
MIT150 Infinite History Project
Richard Lester on the Culture of Innovation watch video with thanks to and permission from NECN
Richard Lester introducing John Rowe at the 2010 MIT Energy Conference watch video
Richard Lester on Innovation watch video
“Unlocking Energy Innovation”, MIT Energy Club/IPC/NSE Special Seminar, MIT, Cambridge, MA, November 14, 2011.Listen to audio podcast
“Unlocking Energy Innovation”, IPC Forum on Energy Innovation, MIT, Cambridge, MA, November 10, 2011. Watch the video. Read about the event.
“Unlocking Energy Innovation”, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, November 7, 2011
"Does Nuclear Energy Have a Future?", presented to the MIT Northern California Alumni Club, PARC, Palo Alto, CA,
November 3, 2011. watch video
“Does Nuclear Energy Have a Future?”, presented to the MIT Southern California Alumni Club, National University,
Los Angeles, CA, November 2, 2011
“The Global Outlook for Nuclear Energy”, Keynote speech, American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting, Washington, D.C., October 31, 2011. download pdf of talk
“Nuclear Governance and Nuclear Innovation After Fukushima”, Keynote speech, Global Nuclear Energy Summit – 2011, Seoul, Republic of Korea, October 22, 2011.
“Unlocking Energy Innovation”, Department of Chemical Engineering Seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara, October 6, 2011.
"Nuclear Leadership After Fukushima", MIT Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems, 10th Anniversary Symposium, Cambridge, MA, 30 March 2011.
"Truth to Power: America's Energy Innovation Problem (and How to Fix It)", MIT Europe Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 12 October 2010.
“Building a Regional Innovation Economy”, Lecture Series on Rochester and the Innovation Economy, Rochester Institute of Technology, 28 September 2010.
“America’s Energy Innovation Problem”, Laboratory Fellows Colloquium, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 11 August 2010.
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