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Chernobyl

Abandoned Chernobyl village. Credit: Clay Gilliland via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0

Chernobyl: A nuclear accident that changed the course of history. Then came Fukushima.

By Mariana Budjeryn | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Three Mile Island

Better nuclear fuel could reduce the likelihood and severity of nuclear power plant accidents

By Jungmin Kang | Uncategorized

repurposed nuclear slogan outside Fukushima

Fukushima today: “I’m glad that I realized my mistake before I died.”

By Thomas A. Bass | Analysis, Personal Essay

Annie Caputo visits Three Mile Island

Biden can rescue the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from industry capture

By Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

2011: Chernobyl 25 years later: Many lessons learned

By Mikhail Gorbachev | Nuclear Risk

Young professionals on a night out in Red Square (left to right): Elliot Serbin, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford University; Maxime Polleri, CISAC, Stanford, Elizaveta Likhacheva, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI); William Heerdt, Monterey Institute for International Studies; Anna Kudriavtseva, MEPhI; Daine Danielson, University of Chicago; James McKeon, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Ksenia Pirnavskaya, MEPhI; Gabriela Levikow, CISAC, Stanford; and Katie McKinney, CISAC, Stanford.

Three major nuclear accidents, as seen by young American and Russian professionals

By Siegfried S. Hecker, Alla A. Kassianova | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Comparing nuclear accident responses at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima

By Daine L. Danielson, Vladimir Kobezskii, Anna Kudriavtseva, Ariel Petrovics | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Voices of Tomorrow

Critical underlying factors in three major nuclear accidents

By Cecilia Eiroa-Lledo, Maria Kolomiets, Masha Levon, Nikita Karpov, Elliot Serbin, Yulia Katsenko | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Voices of Tomorrow

A Soviet military reservist helps with the decontamination effort after the Chernobyl accident.

Minimizing the consequences of nuclear accidents through effective communication

By Jake Hecla, Gabriela Levikow, Ksenia Pirnavskaia | Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Oil spill containment equipment on the beach.

Don’t let nuclear accidents scare you away from nuclear power

By Bulat Aytbaev, Dmitry Grigoriev, Vladislav Lavrenchuk, Noah C. Mayhew | Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

Improving the communication of risks before, during, and after a nuclear accident

By Maxime Polleri, Cameron Tracy, Elizaveta Likhacheva, Evgenia Stepnykh | Nuclear Energy, Voices of Tomorrow

A firefighter on the first-response team in the five-part Chernobyl miniseries co-produced by HBO and Sky.

The next step in do-it-yourself radiation monitoring

By Dahyun Kang | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Voices of Tomorrow