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nuclear safety

What it will take to restart decommissioned US nuclear plants. A primer

By Kathryn Huff, Nathan Ryan | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Despite the risks, Russia continues to use Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as a source of leverage

By Darya Dolzikova | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Russia plans to restart Ukraine’s embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. That won’t make the plant safer

By Ali Alkis | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Congress torpedoes a Biden nominee and casts doubt on nuclear safety

By Allison Macfarlane | Nuclear Energy

Fukushima wastewater issue will further divide a nation, split families, and cause ‘atomic divorce’

By Maxime Polleri | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

Why Japan should stop its Fukushima nuclear wastewater ocean release

By Tatsujiro Suzuki | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

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

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

Nuclear safety staffing in the United States: a crisis with no easy fix

By David Gillum, Itty Abraham, Kathleen M. Vogel | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

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

Wargame shows attacks on reactors would cause meltdowns and military paralysis

By Henry Sokolski | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Ukrainian dam is destroyed; nuclear plant lives in a ‘grace period’

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy

The 2010 nuclear security summit in Washington, DC.

Why Biden’s new nuclear security agenda might not work as planned

By Sitara Noor | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons