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Nuclear Energy

January issue: Nuclear materials, their enduring risks and new challenges

By Bulletin Staff | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

virtual nuclear reactor design

Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?

By Claire Corkhill, Malcolm Joyce, Derek Lacey, Nigel Thrift | Nuclear Energy

aerial view of Yucca Mountain

Becoming a responsible ancestor

By Daniel Metlay | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

nuclear waste tank made of Synroc

Glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms: the scientific battle

By Daniel Gregg, John McCloy, John Vienna, Allison Macfarlane, William Weber, Gregory Lumpkin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Rod Ewing at mineral deposit in New Mexico

Introduction: The enduring risks and new challenges of nuclear materials: a special issue dedicated to Rodney C. Ewing’s scientific and policy contributions

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

tunnel at Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Depository, Nevada

Final thoughts: The fragile connection of safety and science in the geological disposal of radioactive waste

By Rodney C. Ewing, Bernd Grambow | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

workers underground at WIPP

Risks of geologic disposal of weapons plutonium

By Cameron Tracy | Nuclear Energy

How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public

By François Diaz-Maurin | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

The nuclear year in review: Welcome to the antechamber of the next nuclear crisis

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

glacier with and without efforts to rein in climate change

The best of the Bulletin’s bimonthly magazine, 2024

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

AI goes nuclear

By Dawn Stover | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Three Mile Island

Congress wants to turn the nuclear regulator into the US industry’s cheerleader—again

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy, Opinion