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Introduction—Fusion, forever the energy of tomorrow?

By Dan Drollette Jr | Nuclear Energy

Eastern Europe’s purchase of US nuclear reactors is primarily about military ties, not climate change

By Maha Siddiqui, M.V. Ramana | Nuclear Energy

What’s fueling the commercial fusion hype?

By Victor Gilinsky | Nuclear Energy

The nuclear year in review: A renewed interest in nuclear weapons—for and against

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear expert Mycle Schneider on the COP28 pledge to triple nuclear energy production: ‘Trumpism enters energy policy’

By François Diaz-Maurin | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Participants arrive at the venue of the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai on November 29. (Photo by GIUSEPPE CACACE/AFP via Getty Images)

COP28 and the nuclear energy numbers racket

By Sharon Squassoni | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

SMR control room simulator

A small modular reactor’s demise calls for big change in Energy Department policy

By Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy

solar panels at sunset

The process is what matters

By Jessica Lovering | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

SMR research in lab

Building promises of small modular reactors—one conference at a time

By Markku Lehtonen | Nuclear Energy

Report: small nuclear reactors an ‘uncertain and unproven’ technology that could delay Australia’s transition to renewables

By Graham Readfearn | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

Some fuels never learn. US Energy Department returns to costly and risky plutonium separation technologies

By Jungmin Kang, Masafumi Takubo, Frank von Hippel | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Weapons

A Ukrainian climate expert on the Zaporizhzhia situation and the winter energy outlook

By Jessica McKenzie | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy