Nuclear Energy

National Ignition Facility operators inspect a final optics assembly during a routine maintenance period in August.

The Energy Department’s fusion breakthrough: It’s not really about generating electricity

By John Mecklin | Fusion Energy, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Why the world must protect nuclear reactors from military attacks. Now.

By George M. Moore | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Why a new convention to protect nuclear installations in war is a bad idea

By Michal Onderco, Clara Egger | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Docked USS Nautilus nuclear-powered submarine at ship museum

AUKUS and nuclear-powered submarines: Let’s all just take a breath

By Noah C. Mayhew | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

Russian actions at Zaporizhzhia show need for better legal protections of nuclear installations

By Luis Rodriguez, Lauren Sukin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

a man crosses a destroyed bridge holding water bottles

Water as weapon, and casualty, in Russia’s war on Ukraine

By Peter Gleick | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

World leaders at 2011 ceremony to launch Nord Stream gas pipeline

Winter is coming: Europe’s huge geopolitical blunder on Russian energy

By Michal Wyrebkowski, Wiktor Babinski | Nuclear Energy, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

A Russian serviceman patrols the territory of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on May 1, 2022.

Zaporizhzhia on the brink: How deteriorating conditions at the nuclear power plant could lead to disaster

By Zakhar Popovych, Denys I. Bondar, M.V. Ramana | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

New report paints gloomy picture of the world’s nuclear industry

By Dawn Stover | Nuclear Energy

Report: small nuclear reactors an ‘uncertain and unproven’ technology that could delay Australia’s transition to renewables

By Graham Readfearn | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Some fuels never learn. US Energy Department returns to costly and risky plutonium separation technologies

By Jungmin Kang, Masafumi Takubo, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

The A1 Tongue Twister: Nonstop nuclear nonsense

By Thomas Gaulkin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk