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Plutonium pellet. US Energy Department public domain image via Wikimedia Commons.

The history of nuclear power’s imagined future: Plutonium’s journey from asset to waste

By William Walker | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Credit: Matt Field. Based in part on photo by vergreen CC BY-SA 3.0.

The rise and demise of the Clinch River Breeder Reactor

By Henry Sokolski | Analysis, Nuclear Risk

From Brokdorf to Fukushima: The long journey to nuclear phase-out

By Alexander Glaser | Uncategorized

Nuclear or not? The complex and uncertain politics of Japan’s post-Fukushima energy policy

By Masafumi Takubo | Uncategorized