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Nuclear Waste

Why US nuclear waste policy got stalled. And what to do about it.

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Waste

A personal tribute to Rod Ewing, the man against a mountain. And my friend.

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Waste, Personal Essay

The thorny social problem of permanent nuclear waste storage

By Austyn Gaffney | Nuclear Waste

Why cost should not be an obstacle to compensating nuclear survivors

By Alicia Sanders-Zakre, Susi Snyder | Analysis, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Oklo collaborated with Gensler architects to design the Aurora Powerhouse, aiming for a simplified and streamlined construction capability. (Image by Gensler)

Nuclear energy could power the AI boom—but only if proliferation risks are minimized

By Miles A. Pomper, Yanliang Pan | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

To find a place to store spent nuclear fuel, Congress needs to stop trying to revive Yucca Mountain

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant in Japan Aomori. Credit: Nife. (CC BY-SA 3.0). Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.

Rokkasho redux: Japan’s never-ending reprocessing saga

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

Fukushima wastewater issue will further divide a nation, split families, and cause ‘atomic divorce’

By Maxime Polleri | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

Why Japan should stop its Fukushima nuclear wastewater ocean release

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

A barefoot boy waiting in line and staring ahead at a crematorium in Nagasaki, with his dead baby brother strapped to his back. Photo by US Marine photographer Joe O’Donnell

What can we learn from ‘Oppenheimer’ about the blind spots in nuclear storytelling?

By Shampa Biswas | Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Playing downwind of the Trinity test site on the day of the explosion, July 16, 1945

Collateral damage: American civilian survivors of the 1945 Trinity test

By Lesley M. M. Blume | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear safety staffing in the United States: a crisis with no easy fix

By David Gillum, Itty Abraham, Kathleen M. Vogel | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons