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Victor Gilinsky

Victor Gilinsky is a physicist and was a commissioner of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations.


Articles by Victor Gilinsky

Plutonium pellet. US Energy Department public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

For the NPT to work, plutonium has to go

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Opinion
USS Tennessee submarine

Nuclear risks are growing, and there’s only one real solution

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Risk, Opinion
Mike Pompeo and Mohammed bin Salman

Toward an honest Middle East nonproliferation policy

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Risk, Opinion
Hinkley Point C nuclear power station under construction

Trump’s new foreign investment agency: Itching to build on nuclear quicksand

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Opinion
Nuclear reactor on a truck

Small military nuclear reactors: In need of global safeguards

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy
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The US government insurance scheme for nuclear power plant accidents no longer makes sense

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a joint news conference at the White House this week. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Taking Erdogan’s critique of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty seriously

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons
Energy Secretary Rick Perry during a 2017 visit to Idaho National Laboratory.

Why Congress should say no to yet another fast reactor dream

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

If yes to Saudi Arabia, no to whom?

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear power’s weapons link: Cause to limit, not boost exports

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons
The Rokkasho reprocessing facility.

Make US-Japanese nuclear cooperation stable again: End reprocessing

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
Nuclear cooling tower

A containment failure: How American nuclear regulators undercut power plant safety from the beginning

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk