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nuclear accident

Spent nuclear fuel mismanagement poses a major threat to the United States. Here’s how.

By Mark Leyse | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Lessons from Zaporizhzhia: How to protect reactors against ‘nuclear piracy’

By Ali Alkis, Bethany Goldblum | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

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

The largest danger at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant: intentional sabotage

By Matthew Bunn | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

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

IAEA Experts at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Credit: IAEA Imagebank via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0.

Fukushima 10 years later: It still could happen here

By Edwin Lyman | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

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

How safe is nuclear power? A statistical study suggests less than expected

By Thomas Rose, Trevor Sweeting | Uncategorized

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima: An analysis of traditional and new media coverage of nuclear accidents and radiation

By Sharon M. Friedman | Uncategorized

The radiological and psychological consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi accident

By Frank von Hippel | Uncategorized