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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

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

The underground Exploratory Studies Facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada

The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site has always been a political football. Trump is the latest president to fumble

By Allison Macfarlane | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion

A schematic of TerraPower's Molten Chloride Fast Reactor

Burning waste or playing with fire? Waste management considerations for non-traditional reactors

By Lindsay Krall, Allison Macfarlane | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste