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Highly enriched shareholders mean disasters down the line: Why utilities like TEPCO need new corporate governance

By Julius Weitzdörfer, Denia Djokić | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

flags in Vienna

What are we waiting for? The need for stronger international nuclear energy relationships.

By James O. Ellis, Jr., Sonja D. Schmid | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

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

abandoned radioactive hearse in village of Namie outside Fukushima

Remember Fukushima: The accident is not over

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | Nuclear Energy

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency inspect the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture on May 27, 2011. (Photo by Kyodo News Stills via Getty Images)

Are we ready for the unimaginable? Ensuring nuclear safety post-Fukushima

By Rumina Velshi | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Tsunami damage.

Asking the unasked questions

By Matthew Bunn | Uncategorized

Nuclear power: A question of risk and balance

By Joyce Connery | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Leningrad nuclear power plant: a pond for storing spent fuel rods at the Leningrad nuclear power plant in Sosnovy Bor. Photo credit: RIA Novosti archive, image #305008/ Alexey Danichev/CC-BY-SA 3.0

Nuclear safety and security lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima

By William Tobey | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Combined results of 211 flight hours of aerial monitoring operations and ground measurements in the Fukushima area made by the US Energy Department, US Defense Department, and Japanese monitoring teams from March 30, 2011 to April 3, 2011. Source: National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)/ US Energy Department

The Fukushima accident: Do we have the wisdom to move forward?

By Allison Macfarlane | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

abandoned house in Fukushima

Nuclear accidents will happen. What do we do about them?

By Malka Older | Nuclear Energy

A call for transnational citizen-expert engagement in nuclear compensation

By Annelise Riles, Hirokazu Miyazaki | 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