Nuclear Energy

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Why the world’s top nuclear nation is sitting out the hype on small reactors

By AnnaJulia Yates, Allison Macfarlane, Alexander Wimmers | Analysis, Nuclear Energy

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Paradise lost? The framing of nuclear risk and its impact upon the Tao Community of Lanyu Island, Taiwan

By Louie Palmer | Analysis, Magazine, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste, Special Topics

Climate change is exposing nuclear power’s reliability problem

By Valerie Arnhold, M.V. Ramana | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Two men walk outside a white building past American and Saudi Arabian flags; one wears a suit and the other wears traditional Middle Eastern attire.

The US-Saudi nuclear deal isn’t dead—It’s dragging Washington into nonproliferation quicksand

By Sharon Squassoni | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

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Balancing global uranium enrichment needs and proliferation risks: A framework

By Logan Mintz, Matthew Sharp | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

A rocket launches at night, rising vertically through clouds with bright light and smoke trailing behind, silhouetting buildings and structures on the ground.

How a small radioactive battery paves the way for transparent nuclear use in space

By Isobel Porteous, Mallory Stewart | Analysis, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

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Trump administration signs a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia—and risks a Middle East arms race

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

A nuclear power plant with large cylindrical and rectangular structures, exposed platforms, and a smokestack under a partly cloudy sky.

Closing the loop on Bushehr’s plutonium problem

By Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

Data centers powered by next-gen nuclear? Don’t fall for Big Tech’s PR hype

By Molly Langabeer, M.V. Ramana | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Disruptive Technologies, Nuclear Energy

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Why do we keep ignoring the large quantity of plutonium at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant?

By Gregory Jones | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Thirteen films that are essential to understanding the nuclear age

By Alex Wellerstein | Magazine, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Personal Essay, Satire, Special Topics

dormant nuclear reactor towers

In Nebraska, nuclear gets a “yes,” while wind and solar get a “no”

By Anila Yoganathan | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Science Denial