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UChicago Student Series: The Future of Nuclear Energy in the United States

By Sabrina Fields | What’s New at the Bulletin

abandoned radioactive hearse in village of Namie outside Fukushima

Remember Fukushima: The accident is not over

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | Nuclear Energy

Tsunami damage.

Asking the unasked questions

By Matthew Bunn | Uncategorized

abandoned house in Fukushima

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

By Malka Older | Nuclear Energy

Three Mile Island

Better nuclear fuel could reduce the likelihood and severity of nuclear power plant accidents

By Jungmin Kang | Uncategorized

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

By Jun Tateno | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Armenia's Metsamor nuclear power plant cooling towers. (Credit: Adam Jones via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 2.0)

Armenia’s nuclear power plant is dangerous. Time to close it.

By Brenda Shaffer | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Masked policemen are seen on the grounds of the Federal Supreme Court (Bundesgerichtshof) in Karlsruhe, southern Germany, after five Tajiks suspected to be members of an IS terror cell were arrested. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/AFP via Getty Images.)

How to keep nuclear power plants operating safely during the coronavirus pandemic

By William Tobey, Simon Saradzhyan, Nickolas Roth | Cyber Security, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear cooling tower

The global responsibility to prepare for intersecting climate and nuclear risks

By Christine Parthemore, Francesco Femia, Caitlin Werrell | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Forty years of impasse: The United States, Japan, and the plutonium problem

By Masafumi Takubo, Frank von Hippel | Uncategorized

The incredible shrinking nuclear offset to climate change

By Sharon Squassoni | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy

What role could nuclear power play in limiting climate change?

By Robert Rosner, Alex Hearn | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy