[2] A physicist by training, he previously worked at the Nuclear Futures Laboratory and the Program on Science and Global Security, both at Princeton University.
Ramana is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, the Canadian Pugwash Group,[3] the International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group,[4] and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report.
Ramana has written many papers and is the author of Nuclear is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change (Verso, 2024) [5] and The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India (Penguin Books, 2012).
[6][7][8][9] He is co-editor of Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream (New Delhi: Orient Longman, 2003) and author of Bombing Bombay?
In 2014, Ramana received the Leo Szilard Award of the American Physical Society.