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Nuclear Energy

Review: India’s “Rocket Boys” series fetishizes science—and the atomic bomb—in a dangerous way

By Urvashi Sarkar | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

A wind farm off the coast of Sweden, aerial photograph

An energetic exchange on the costs of decarbonizing Europe

By Amory B. Lovins, Robert Rosner, Sabrina Fields | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Five reasons that Russia’s nuclear exports will continue, despite sanctions and the Ukraine invasion. But for how long?

By Marina Lorenzini, Francesca Giovannini | Nuclear Energy

We need to get serious about the renewable energy revolution—by including nuclear power

By Michael Edesess | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Aerial view of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant

California governor warms up to nuclear reactors

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Aerial view of Palisades Nuclear Plant on Lake Michigan

A $6 billion bailout for US nuclear power plants?

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Alley of abandoned villages - 162 plaques with the names of permanently evacuated settlements during 1986-1991 after the Chernobyl accident. Credit: Margarita Kalinina-Pohl (2018).

Chernobyl is still changing: Four enduring stories and a recent one

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Siegfried Hecker (second from right) visits the secret Russian nuclear city of Sarov in February 1992. Credit: screen grab from Stanford University "Doomed to Cooperate" video, available on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81ZpFLO4hmE&t=1s

Siegfried Hecker: Putin has destroyed the world nuclear order. How should the democracies respond?

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

М17, Kherson oblast, Ukraine, Kalanchats'kyi district

Damage to Ukraine’s renewable energy sector could surpass $1 billion

By Tom Johansmeyer | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Four unanswered questions about the intersection of war and nuclear power

By Julien de Troullioud de Lanversin, Maxime Polleri | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Brazil President Bolsonaro signing decree relaxing gun rules

Why Brazil shouldn’t let Bolsonaro stand in the way of ratifying the nuclear ban treaty

By Bárbara Cruvinel Santiago | Nuclear Energy, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Internal Troops of the Ministry for Internal Affairs (Russia). Credit: Vitaly V. Kuzmin. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Russian forces leave Chernobyl; UN watchdog offers Ukraine more help

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk