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Nuclear Energy

Chinese nuclear power plant

And the prize for global nuclear security goes to… China

By Sara Z. Kutchesfahani | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

US President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a joint news conference at the White House this week. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Taking Erdogan’s critique of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty seriously

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Workers stacking bags of soil.

An update from Fukushima, and the challenges that remain there

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Opinion

When water pumped out of the mineshaft at the Canyon Mine south of Grand Canyon National Park threatened to overflow the onsite containment pond, the uranium mine’s operator began misting the water into the air with water cannons to speed up evaporation

A “critical” battle over uranium mining in the Grand Canyon area

By Dawn Stover | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Yucca Mountain facility

Argonne scientists say they’ve developed a better way to deal with nuclear waste—thanks to 3-D printers

By John Krzyzaniak | Analysis, Nuclear Energy

The second of two reactors at China’s Taishan nuclear power plant, a Chinese-French joint venture, entered commercial operation on September 7, 2019. Credit: EDF

An “undeclared phaseout” of the nuclear industry

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Decoding the US “secret authorizations” to sell nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia

By Viet Phuong Nguyen | Analysis, Nuclear Energy

Annie Caputo visits Three Mile Island

Aging nuclear plants, industry cost-cutting, and reduced safety oversight: a dangerous mix

By Edwin Lyman | Analysis, Nuclear Energy

Iran has exceeded uranium limits set by the Iran nuclear deal. What’s next?

By Heather Wuest | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, What We’re Reading

Recycle everything, America—except your nuclear waste

By Allison Macfarlane, Sharon Squassoni | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Siegfried Hecker chats with some of the participants in the US-Russia Young Professionals Nuclear Forum

The future of global nuclear power through the eyes of young Russian and American professionals

By Siegfried S. Hecker, Alla A. Kassianova | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Nuclear power and global climate change

By Ivan Andriushin, Cecilia Eiroa-Lledo, Patricia Schuster, Evgenii Varseev | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow