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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

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

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk
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Facing reality in the US-Saudi nuclear agreement: South Korea

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Opinion

No to a permissive US-Saudi nuclear deal

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion
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Exporting power reactors: No way to fight proliferation

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

Putting the nonproliferation back in the NPT

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

When 10,000 square miles of contamination is an acceptable risk: The NRC’s faulty concept

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy, Opinion