The authoritative guide to ensuring science and technology make life on Earth better, not worse.

nuclear accidents

Picturing the invisible: Legacies of Fukushima in art

By Makoto Takahashi | Multimedia, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

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

Zaporizhzhia on the brink: How deteriorating conditions at the nuclear power plant could lead to disaster

By Zakhar Popovych, Denys I. Bondar, M.V. Ramana | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

A Ukrainian expert assesses the possible impact of a military attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

A nuclear safety expert’s view on the crisis at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant

By Attila Aszódi | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

IAEA arrives at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant for its riskiest mission in history

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, nuclear power plant at night

Experts weigh in on the risk of disaster at a Ukrainian nuclear power plant

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Ali Akbar Salehi at the Bushehr Nuclear Plant in 2015.

How to reduce the risk of a catastrophic spent nuclear fuel fire near the Persian Gulf

By Tara Burchmore, Tom Spence, Ali Ahmad | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

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

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

A call for transnational citizen-expert engagement in nuclear compensation

By Annelise Riles, Hirokazu Miyazaki | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Map of Japan showing the March 11, 2011 earthquake. Credit: W. Rebel via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0.

A Fukushima lesson: Victim compensation schemes need updating

By Hirokazu Miyazaki | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk