New US-UK nuclear collaboration may involve accepting each other’s safety checks.
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Rising electricity demand, especially to power data centers, could make restoring some nuclear plants that closed early financially viable.
It can be hard to make up your mind about nuclear power. Two scientists help you sort through the arguments and come to your own conclusions.
The rush to evacuate communities and abandon nuclear energy was understandable, but an error.
A new nuclear plant called Barakah is nearing completion in the UAE. But it risks further stabilising the volatile Gulf region.
Russia appears to have developed a revolutionary mini-reactor able to power a missile.
Nuclear industry players tout small modular reactors as an “inherently safe,” cost-effective source of electricity. The reality may be less attractive.
Those communities affected by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident are having their resilience tested once again.
The latest earthquake off Japan’s east coast was an ominous reminder of the 2011 Fukushima disaster. But despite a technical hitch at one of Fukushima’s other reactors, there was no repeat this time.
Is the U.S. prepared for nuclear attacks from terrorists or rogue nations? A radiation expert explains how Cold War-style fallout shelters could help protect us from this growing threat.
The South Australian royal commission recommended the state investigate a high-level nuclear storage facility. But the costs don’t stack up.
South Australia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission has recommended a nuclear waste site for the state.
Chernobyl is already responsible for up to 5,000 cases of cancer in Europe.
The meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 exposed 572 million people to radiation. No other nuclear accident holds a candle to that level of public health impact.
Engineers have devised an innovative way to dismantle Chernobyl’s reactor while preventing further radiation escaping.
Remediation will never get radiation to zero in the area affected by the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant. Rather than safety, the conversation should focus on acceptable risk.
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Timothy J. Jorgensen is a Friend of The Conversation.Director of the Health Physics and Radiation Protection Graduate Program and Professor of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University
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Research Fellow in nuclear waste disposal, University of Sheffield
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Doctoral student, Adelaide University
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Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security at the Liu Institute for Global Issues, University of British Columbia
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Lecturer in Peace Studies and International Development, University of Bradford
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Honorary Associate Professor, Nuclear Reactors and Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Australian National University
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Assistant Professor in Geography, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Energy, The Open University
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Professor of Risk Management, University of Bristol
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Directeur de recherche CNRS, Université Paris Cité
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Senior Staff Scientist, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)
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Professor of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan
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Lecturer in Nuclear Engineering, University of East Anglia