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IAEA visits Fukushima

Fukushima: Lessons learned from a devastating “near-miss”

By Yoichi Funabashi, Marina Fujita Dickson | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Alley of abandoned villages - 162 plaques with the names of permanently evacuated settlements during 1986-1991 after the Chernobyl accident. Credit: Margarita Kalinina-Pohl (2018).

Chernobyl is still changing: Four enduring stories and a recent one

By Susan D’Agostino | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Sea nettle jellyfish swimming at Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, CA. Credit: Photollama. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jellyfish attack nuclear power plant. Again.

By Susan D’Agostino | Climate Change, 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

10 years after Fukushima: Are Japanese nuclear power plants safe?

By Jun Tateno | 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 risky is nuclear optimism?

By Martin E. Hellman | Uncategorized