nuclear waste

Radiation exposure victims fight for compensation as nuclear weapons funding soars

By Chloe Shrager | Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Red light for the greenway: Locals oppose wildlife corridor at plutonium-contaminated Rocky Flats site

By John Abbotts | Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

virtual nuclear reactor design

Small and advanced nuclear reactors: Closing the fuel cycle?

By Claire Corkhill, Malcolm Joyce, Derek Lacey, Nigel Thrift | Nuclear Energy

nuclear waste tank made of Synroc

Glass and ceramic nuclear waste forms: the scientific battle

By Daniel Gregg, John McCloy, John Vienna, Allison Macfarlane, William Weber, Gregory Lumpkin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

Rod Ewing at mineral deposit in New Mexico

Introduction: The enduring risks and new challenges of nuclear materials: a special issue dedicated to Rodney C. Ewing’s scientific and policy contributions

By François Diaz-Maurin | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk

The thorny social problem of permanent nuclear waste storage

By Austyn Gaffney | Nuclear Waste

To find a place to store spent nuclear fuel, Congress needs to stop trying to revive Yucca Mountain

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Waste

rendering of a proposed nuclear reactor building

Say no to small modular reactors: Stop normalizing the exploitation of nature

By Erin Hurley | Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Opinion, Voices of Tomorrow

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

rusted nuclear submarine at dock

War puts cleanup of Russia’s radioactive wrecks on ice

By Charles Digges | Nuclear Risk

A technician prepares salts for use in MSRE in 1964. By Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Accessed via Flickr. CC BY 2.0.

Molten salt reactors were trouble in the 1960s—and they remain trouble today

By M.V. Ramana | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Waste