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abandoned radioactive hearse in village of Namie outside Fukushima

Remember Fukushima: The accident is not over

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | Nuclear Energy

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency inspect the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on May 27, 2011. (Photo by Kyodo News Stills via Getty Images)

Are we ready for the unimaginable? Ensuring nuclear safety post-Fukushima

By Rumina Velshi | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Nuclear power: A question of risk and balance

By Joyce Connery | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Leningrad nuclear power plant: a pond for storing spent fuel rods at the Leningrad nuclear power plant in Sosnovy Bor. Photo credit: RIA Novosti archive, image #305008/ Alexey Danichev/CC-BY-SA 3.0

Nuclear safety and security lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima

By William Tobey | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Combined results of 211 flight hours of aerial monitoring operations and ground measurements in the Fukushima area made by the US Energy Department, US Defense Department, and Japanese monitoring teams from March 30, 2011 to April 3, 2011. Source: National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)/ US Energy Department

The Fukushima accident: Do we have the wisdom to move forward?

By Allison Macfarlane | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

abandoned house in Fukushima

Nuclear accidents will happen. What do we do about them?

By Malka Older | Nuclear Energy

A call for transnational citizen-expert engagement in nuclear compensation

By Annelise Riles, Hirokazu Miyazaki | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

IAEA Experts at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Credit: IAEA Imagebank via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fukushima 10 years later: It still could happen here

By Edwin Lyman | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Map of Japan showing the March 11, 2011 earthquake. Credit: W. Rebel via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

A Fukushima lesson: Victim compensation schemes need updating

By Hirokazu Miyazaki | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

10 years after Fukushima: Are Japanese nuclear power plants safe?

By Jun Tateno | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant receives 12,500th shipment of transuranic waste

Can the Energy Department store 50 tons of weapons-grade plutonium for 10,000 years?

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

Armenia's Metsamor nuclear power plant cooling towers. (Credit: Adam Jones via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0)

Armenia’s nuclear power plant is dangerous. Time to close it.

By Brenda Shaffer | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

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