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Nuclear Energy

The 2010 nuclear security summit in Washington, DC.

Why Biden’s new nuclear security agenda might not work as planned

By Sitara Noor | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nerds, ninjas, and neutrons: The story of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team

By Jay A. Tilden, Dallas Boyd | Investigative Reporting, Multimedia, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

The narrow field of options for safely managing Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

By Mark Hibbs | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Victor Gilinsky offers a less optimistic view of North Korea’s negotiating tactics and nuclear program

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Picturing the invisible: Legacies of Fukushima in art

By Makoto Takahashi | Multimedia, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

One year later, new dangers threaten Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

By Edwin Lyman | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Why Russia may control Turkey’s nuclear energy for the next 80 years

By Ali Alkis, Valeriia Gergiieva | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Voices of Tomorrow

Siegfried Hecker, a Senior Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee 21 January, 2004 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Hecker, who was a member of an unofficial US delegation that visited the controversial Yongbyon research complex this month, told lawmakers that North Korea can accumulate six Kilograms (13.2 pounds) a year of plutonium that could be used to make a nuclear weapon. "The five megawatt reactor has been re-started, it appears to be operating smoothly, providing heat and electricity, also accumulating approximately six kilograms (13.2 pounds) of plutonium per year in its spent fuel rods." Photo credit: Stephen Jaffe/AFP via Getty Images

An excerpt from “Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea’s Nuclear Program”

By Siegfried S. Hecker, Elliot Serbin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un shake hands

Interview: Siegfried Hecker on two decades of missed chances to deal with North Korea’s nuclear program

By John Mecklin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

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His grandson explains: Why Oppenheimer remains important today

By Charles Oppenheimer | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

solar panels at sunset

The process is what matters

By Jessica Lovering | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Final countdown to site selection for Canada’s nuclear waste geologic repository

By Zoe Braden, Allison Macfarlane | Nuclear Waste