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He is best known for the comprehensive, yeyet controversial paper "Nuclear power the energy balance" by Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen and Philip Smith, where they analyzed the energy payback from the entire nuclear power system. They found the major parameter determining the energy balance to be the grade of the of the uranium ore.<ref>{{cite web

| url= http://www.stormsmith.nl

| title= "Nuclear Energy: the Energy Balance"

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van Lewen also was a co-author of another controversial paper that challenged the that the greenhouse effect is zero from nuclear power published by The [www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk Oxford Group] shows otherwise.<ref>{{cite web

|url=http://www.isn.ethz.ch/pubs/ph/details.cfm?id=29589

|title=Secure Energy? Civil Nuclear Power, Security and Global Warming

|author=Frank Barnaby, Keith Barnham, James Kemp, Paul Rogers, Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen

|publisher=Oxford Research Group (ORG), UK

|isbn=978-0-9552846-1-8

|date=2007-03

|pages=56

|accessdate=2008-04-26

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|url=http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/mar2007/db20070326_366468.htm

|title=New Debate Over Nuclear Option

|date=2007-03-26

|publisher=[[Business Week]]

|author=Moira Herbst

|accessdate=2008-04-26

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Storm van Leeuwen is recognized by Open Democracy as one of their notable authors.<ref>{{cite web

|url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Jan_Willem_Storm_van_Leeuwen.jsp

|title=Author Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen

|publisher=OpenDemocracy

|accessdate=2008-04-26

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