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Nuclear Energy

Four powerful players want a nuclear waste solution. What’s stopping them?

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Barakah Nuclear Power Station

Three takeaways from the 2020 World Nuclear Industry Status Report

By John Krzyzaniak | Nuclear Energy

The canals of Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station

With climate change, aging nuclear plants need closer scrutiny. Turkey Point shows why.

By Caroline Reiser | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Young professionals on a night out in Red Square (left to right): Elliot Serbin, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University; Maxime Polleri, CISAC, Stanford, Elizaveta Likhacheva, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI); William Heerdt, Monterey Institute for International Studies; Anna Kudriavtseva, MEPhI; Daine Danielson, University of Chicago; James McKeon, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Ksenia Pirnavskaya, MEPhI; Gabriela Levikow, CISAC, Stanford; and Katie McKinney, CISAC, Stanford.

Three major nuclear accidents, as seen by young American and Russian professionals

By Siegfried S. Hecker, Alla A. Kassianova | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Comparing nuclear accident responses at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima

By Daine L. Danielson, Vladimir Kobezskii, Anna Kudriavtseva, Ariel Petrovics | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Voices of Tomorrow

Critical underlying factors in three major nuclear accidents

By Cecilia Eiroa-Lledo, Maria Kolomiets, Masha Levon, Nikita Karpov, Elliot Serbin, Yulia Katsenko | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Voices of Tomorrow

A Soviet military reservist helps with the decontamination effort after the Chernobyl accident.

Minimizing the consequences of nuclear accidents through effective communication

By Jake Hecla, Gabriela Levikow, Ksenia Pirnavskaia | Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Oil spill containment equipment on the beach.

Don’t let nuclear accidents scare you away from nuclear power

By Bulat Aytbaev, Dmitry Grigoriev, Vladislav Lavrenchuk, Noah C. Mayhew | Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Improving the communication of risks before, during, and after a nuclear accident

By Maxime Polleri, Cameron Tracy, Elizaveta Likhacheva, Evgenia Stepnykh | Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Energy Department representatives presented Yucca Mountain license application to the NRC on June 3, 2008.

If Trump and Biden agree there shouldn’t be a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, can’t we all?

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor—book review by plasma physicist who heads Large Hadron Collider

By Lucio Rossi | Climate Change, Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy

Hinkley Point C nuclear power station under construction

Trump’s new foreign investment agency: Itching to build on nuclear quicksand

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Opinion