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Edwin Lyman

Edwin Lyman is the Director of Nuclear Power Safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He earned a PhD in physics from Cornell University in 1992. He is a co-author (with David Lochbaum and Susan Q. Stranahan) of the book Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster (The New Press, 2014). In 2018, he received the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society.


Articles by Edwin Lyman

One year later, new dangers threaten Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

By Edwin Lyman | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
The Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in Central California. Photo credit: marya from San Luis Obispo, USA via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant: assessing the seismic risks of extended operation

By Edwin Lyman | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
IAEA Experts at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Credit: IAEA Imagebank via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fukushima 10 years later: It still could happen here

By Edwin Lyman | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
Annie Caputo visits Three Mile Island

Aging nuclear plants, industry cost-cutting, and reduced safety oversight: a dangerous mix

By Edwin Lyman | Analysis, Nuclear Energy

The Pentagon wants to boldly go where no nuclear reactor has gone before. It won’t work.

By Edwin Lyman | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Fukushima’s lessons, unlearned in America?

By Edwin Lyman | Analysis, Nuclear Energy

The NRC’s Dirty Little Secret

By Daniel Hirsch, David Lochbaum, Edwin Lyman | Uncategorized

The Trouble: Accident Prone

By Edwin Lyman, Steven Dolley | Uncategorized