March special issue: What to do about Taiwan

Nuclear Energy

Will Seoul and Washington make Riyadh nuclear-weapons ready?

By Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

How commercial satellite imagery could soon make nuclear secrecy very difficult—if not impossible

By Igor Moric | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Ukraine forges ahead with nuclear power

By Dawn Stover | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

A technician prepares salts for use in MSRE in 1964. By Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Accessed via Flickr. CC BY 2.0.

Molten salt reactors were trouble in the 1960s—and they remain trouble today

By M.V. Ramana | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste

SMR research in lab

Interview: Small modular reactors get a reality check about their waste

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

Review: India’s “Rocket Boys” series fetishizes science—and the atomic bomb—in a dangerous way

By Urvashi Sarkar | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

A wind farm off the coast of Sweden, aerial photograph

An energetic exchange on the costs of decarbonizing Europe

By Amory B. Lovins, Robert Rosner, Sabrina Fields | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Five reasons that Russia’s nuclear exports will continue, despite sanctions and the Ukraine invasion. But for how long?

By Marina Lorenzini, Francesca Giovannini | Nuclear Energy

We need to get serious about the renewable energy revolution—by including nuclear power

By Michael Edesess | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Aerial view of Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant

California governor warms up to nuclear reactors

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Aerial view of Palisades Nuclear Plant on Lake Michigan

A $6 billion bailout for US nuclear power plants?

By Dawn Stover | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Alley of abandoned villages - 162 plaques with the names of permanently evacuated settlements during 1986-1991 after the Chernobyl accident. Credit: Margarita Kalinina-Pohl (2018).

Chernobyl is still changing: Four enduring stories and a recent one

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk