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Nuclear Energy

What countries will be the most important in leading a significant expansion of global nuclear power—both from the perspective of the supplier and the user?

By Vladislav Kostikov, Anna Kudriavtseva, Cameron Tracy | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi at the Bushehr Nuclear Plant in 2015.

Should nuclear power be expanded significantly into developing countries?

By Yulia Katsenko, Oksana Mironchuk, Evgenii A. Veretennikov, Kristin Ven Bruusgaard | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

The world's first AP1000 reactor, at the Sanmen nuclear power plant in China.

What will be required for a significant expansion of global nuclear energy?

By Chantell Murphy, Vasily Safonov | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Watts Bar Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 & 2 cooling towers and containment buildings.

Why nuclear power plants cost so much—and what can be done about it

By Daria Iurshina, Nikita Karpov, Marie Kirkegaard, Evgeny Semenov | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

On a tour of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI).

Resolving safety and security concerns about nuclear power

By Roman Bobrov, Julia Diamond, Khalit Shemshedinov | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Will nuclear proliferation challenges limit a significant expansion of global nuclear power?

By Vladimir Kobezskii, Elliot Serbin | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

An example of dry cask storage of spent nuclear fuel.

Will nuclear waste disposal challenges limit a significant expansion of global nuclear power?

By Aleksandr Kudryavtsev, Masha Levon, T. Gannon Parker, Viktor Rosnovskii | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Energy Secretary Rick Perry during a 2017 visit to Idaho National Laboratory.

Why Congress should say no to yet another fast reactor dream

By Victor Gilinsky, Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Nuclear waste: A hot business?

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, What We’re Reading

Author Adam Higginbotham. Credit: Peter Eavis

The human drama of Chernobyl

By Dawn Stover | Interviews, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Greg Jaczko, the outsider who ran the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

By Dawn Stover | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Pennsylvania decides whether to subsidize nuclear energy as “clean”

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