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nuclear waste

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

Radioactive waste barrels. Credit: Recognize Productions from Pexels. Public domain.

A better way to store nuclear waste: Ask for consent.

By Seth P. Tuler, Thomas Webler | Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Is the US nuclear community prepared for the extreme weather climate change is bringing?

By Susan D’Agostino | Analysis, Climate Change, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Waste Isolation Pilot Plant receives 12,500th shipment of transuranic waste

Can the Energy Department store 50 tons of weapons-grade plutonium for 10,000 years?

By Robert Alvarez | Analysis, Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

Why Biden should designate a nuclear waste negotiator

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Opinion

Rendering of proposed HI-STORE Consolidated Interim Storage Facility

Private, centralized storage for spent nuclear fuel: A dead end or path forward?

By David Klaus | Nuclear Energy, Nuclear Risk, Opinion