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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

The Braidwood nuclear power plant rises above nearby homes. The state of Illinois and Will County officials sued the owners and operators of the facility in 2006, claiming they failed to report leaks of radioactive tritium from the facility. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

‘Exploring Tritium’s Danger’: a book review

By Robert Alvarez | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository

By Zoe Braden, Allison Macfarlane | Nuclear Waste

Ukraine forges ahead with nuclear power

By Dawn Stover | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

A technician prepares salts for use in MSRE in 1964. By Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Accessed via Flickr. CC BY 2.0.

Molten salt reactors were trouble in the 1960s—and they remain trouble today

By M.V. Ramana | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste

SMR research in lab

Interview: Small modular reactors get a reality check about their waste

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

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

The history of nuclear power’s imagined future: Plutonium’s journey from asset to waste

By William Walker | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

The underground Exploratory Studies Facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada

Opportunities for US-Russian collaboration on the safe disposal of nuclear waste

By Cameron Tracy, Sulgiye Park, Maria Plevaka, Ekaterina Bogdanova | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

A satellite image of China's demonstration plutonium reprocessing plant.

Pinpointing China’s new plutonium reprocessing plant

By Hui Zhang | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste