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Nuclear Energy

workers underground at WIPP

Risks of geologic disposal of weapons plutonium

By Cameron Tracy | Nuclear Energy

How Fukushima’s radioactive fallout in Tokyo was concealed from the public

By François Diaz-Maurin | Investigative Reporting, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

The nuclear year in review: Welcome to the antechamber of the next nuclear crisis

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

glacier with and without efforts to rein in climate change

The best of the Bulletin’s bimonthly magazine, 2024

By Dan Drollette Jr | Analysis, Biosecurity, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons, Special Topics

AI goes nuclear

By Dawn Stover | Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Three Mile Island

Congress wants to turn the nuclear regulator into the US industry’s cheerleader—again

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

November issue: Fusion — The next big thing… again?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Nuclear Energy

The fuel supply quandary of fusion power reactors

By Daniel Jassby | Nuclear Energy

implosion at National Ignition Facility lab test

The entanglement of fusion energy research and bombs

By Arjun Makhijani | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

interior of fusion experiment at MIT

Ferreting out the truth about fusion: Interview with Bob Rosner

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

sun in extreme closeup

Introduction—Fusion, forever the energy of tomorrow?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Nuclear Energy

roulette wheel

“Fusion is not a typical bet”: Interview with Silicon Valley investor Mark Coopersmith

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy