Nuclear Energy

The Russian attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

It’s past time to start protecting US nuclear power reactors from drones

By Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

World Bank Group President Ajay Banga and IAEA Director Rafael Mariano Grossi sign a partnership agreement to support the safe, secure, and responsible use of nuclear energy in developing countries, during their meeting in Paris, France, in June 2025. Martin Amaldo / World Bank

The World Bank can now fund nuclear energy projects: Here’s what’s next

By Marina Lorenzini | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

A group of scientists in lab coats and masks observe and take notes around a metal scientific apparatus in a laboratory setting.

Actually, the NPT doesn’t guarantee a right to make nuclear fuel

By Henry Sokolski, Sharon Squassoni | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

A street scene with damaged buildings, rubble, a cyclist, pedestrians, and two trams in the city of Hiroshima showing signs of destruction.

The nuclear road not taken—and its consequences 80 years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

By Arjun Makhijani | Hiroshima & Nagasaki, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

The first US atomic rush was a bust. Will Trump’s big nuclear-for-AI plans fare any better?

By Chloe Shrager | Artificial Intelligence, Nuclear Energy

Time for Iran to make a no-enrichment nuclear deal

By Siegfried S. Hecker, Abbas Milani | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Why the US must protect the independence of its nuclear regulator

By Stephen Burns, Allison Macfarlane, Richard Meserve | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Tehran’s no good, very bad options, and why only diplomacy can head off an Iranian bomb

By Pranay Vaddi | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The radiation risks of Iran’s nuclear program, with or without a strike on Fordow

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

A nuclear consortium in the Persian Gulf as a basis for a new nuclear deal between the United States and Iran

By Frank von Hippel, Alexander Glaser, Zia Mian, Seyed Hossein Mousavian | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Tracker Update: Trump issues executive orders on nuclear power

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Energy

The NRC’s new Mission Impossible: Making Atoms Great Again

By Edwin Lyman | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk