nuclear power

Nuclear Power Plants Aren't Made to Survive War

by Kate Brown and Susan Solomon

"It is difficult to believe, but in all the decades of imagining nuclear-emergency scenarios, engineers did not design for an event so human and inevitable as war."

Researchers Work on Mystery Uranium Cubes to Better Understand Nazi Progress on Atomic Bomb

New forensic research techniques could fill in missing details of the progress of Nazi nuclear weapons programs and improve contemporary efforts to enforce nuclear nonproliferation. 

The Fire Next Time: Climate Change, the Bomb, or the Flame of Hope?

by Rebecca Gordon

American energy policy has utterly failed to even acknowledge the hazards posed by the production of nuclear waste; concern about climate change must not enable a careless expansion of nuclear power. 

A Call for Antiracist Action and Accountability in the US Nuclear Community

The history of nuclear power and nuclear weapons has historically been entangled with the history of colonialism and global white supremacy. 

Inside the Mission to Perform Bone-Marrow Transplants on Survivors of the Chernobyl Disaster

"Nevertheless, the next ten days demonstrated the value of international medical cooperation in moments of crisis, even when politics might make success seem impossible." writes Yair Reisner, an Israeli doctor whose help was requested by Russian officials after the disaster.

Atomic age began 75 years ago with the first controlled nuclear chain reaction

by Artemis Spyrou and Wolfgang Mittig

A uranium nucleus could split in half releasing huge amounts of energy.  This finding at the dawn of World War II was the start of a scientific and military race to understand and use this new atomic source of power.

Thirty Years After Chernobyl, Debate Rages About Nuclear Power

For many people in the West, Chernobyl has served as a kind of referendum on nuclear power.

Acting with Impunity: The Case of General Electric

by Lawrence S. Wittner

General Electric ships jobs overseas, doesn't pay taxes, and actively endangers Americans.