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Nuclear safety

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Nuclear Power

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Approves First Domestic Small Commercial Reactor

New nuclear reactors are important for clean power, but are hindered by intense regulatory schemes.

Sam Rutzick | 9.10.2020 12:30 PM

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Bureaucracy

HBO's Chernobyl Highlighted Government Malfeasance and Administrative Evil

The show wasn't about a nuclear disaster per se, but about how a government—and individuals—reacted in the face of disaster.

Steven Greenhut | 6.21.2019 8:30 AM

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Television

Chernobyl Is About What Happens When Citizens Believe Telling the Truth Is Futile

The HBO series is a powerful portrait of the political and social rot that occurs in authoritarian regimes.

Eric Boehm | 6.2.2019 9:00 AM

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Nuclear Power

This Environmentalist Says Only Nuclear Power Can Save Us Now

Michael Shellenberger believes the Green New Deal’s focus on wind and solar is a waste of time and money.

Zach Weissmueller | 5.22.2019 2:05 PM

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Television

HBO's Chernobyl Presents Catastrophic History as Horror

A miniseries about the deadly nuclear disaster that marked the doom of the Soviet Union

Glenn Garvin | 5.3.2019 3:00 PM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: It's Around Here Somewhere

Charles Oliver | 7.27.2018 4:00 AM

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Nuclear Power

Open the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository

The Washington Post is right: "Put Yucca Mountain to work. The nation needs it."

Ronald Bailey | 7.17.2017 3:31 PM

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Brickbats

Brickbat: Oops, Wrong Button

Charles Oliver | 6.1.2017 4:00 AM

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Donald Trump

Trump Administration Is Right: Open the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository

Some 70,000 metric tons to nuclear waste is still sitting at nuclear power plants

Ronald Bailey | 3.29.2017 1:50 PM

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Nuclear safety

Coal Pollution Likely Kills More People Annually Than Will Ever Die from Chernobyl Radiation

If you're worried about human health, nuclear wins easily over coal.

Ronald Bailey | 4.26.2016 1:41 PM

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Nuclear Power

The New Nuclear Energy Revolution

Throwing off excessive regulatory precaution will bend the nuclear cost curve down, argues new study

Ronald Bailey | 2.5.2016 1:30 PM

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Nuclear Power

Will Environmentalists Force California to Choose "Dirty" Energy Over Clean Nuclear?

Closing the state's last nuclear power plant is anti-environmental and just plain stupid.

Ronald Bailey | 2.3.2016 2:49 PM

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Nuclear Power

Advanced Reactor Nuclear Power Resurgence in the U.S.

Privately funded, carbon-free, walk-away-safe, burns nuclear waste - what's not to like?

Ronald Bailey | 1.29.2016 1:30 PM

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Russia

Russia Undermining 20 Years of Nuclear Cooperation With U.S.

Zenon Evans | 11.14.2014 12:10 PM

Nuclear safety

Underground Fire at Nuclear Waste Storage Facility in New Mexico

Carlsbad

Reason Staff | 2.5.2014 6:55 PM

Military

92 Nuclear Missile Officers Implicated in Cheating Scandal

Taken off duty

Reason Staff | 1.30.2014 3:30 PM

Nuclear Weapons

Chuck Hagel Calls for Review of US Nuclear Arsenal

Following allegation of cheating and drug use among Air Force personnel

Reason Staff | 1.23.2014 6:50 PM

Military

34 Air Force Members Working with Nukes Implicated in Cheating Scandal

Connected to job proficiency tests

Reason Staff | 1.15.2014 5:50 PM

Nuclear safety

Nuclear Launch Officers Tied to Narcotics Investigation

How comforting

Reason Staff | 1.9.2014 6:20 PM

Nuclear safety

Report: Security of Nuclear Materials Sees Improvement

Seven countries give up most of uranium and plutonium

Reason Staff | 1.8.2014 3:00 PM

Mexico

Six Admitted to Mexican Hospital with Possible Radiation Exposure

Possibly connected to truck stolen, then abandoned

Reason Staff | 12.6.2013 5:00 PM

Nuclear Power

Court Orders Suspension of Nuclear Waste Clean-Up Fees

Power companies were being forced to pay, but the money wasn't being used as the feds still debate how to deal with waste

Reason Staff | 11.19.2013 3:50 PM

Nuclear safety

Audit: Poor Management Blamed for Flagging Nuclear Waste Program

Facility 11 years behind schedule and costs have tripled

Reason Staff | 10.2.2013 2:30 PM

Nuclear Power

Court Won't Let Vermont Close Nuclear Plant

State trying to get around NRC on safety concerns

Reason Staff | 8.14.2013 4:30 PM

Nuclear Power

Court Rules US Must Decide on Nevada Nuclear Waste Storage

Yucca Mountain facility has been long-stalled

Reason Staff | 8.13.2013 1:30 PM

Nuclear Power

Calif. Nuclear Plant to Close

Had been shut down for more than a year due to safety problems.

Reason Staff | 6.7.2013 11:23 AM

Fukushima

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster's Toll: How About Zero?

Ronald Bailey | 6.5.2013 10:40 AM

Nuclear safety

Terrorism and Radiation: Understanding the Real Threat To Our Cities

The importance of understanding the real levels of radiation risk.

Jon Utley | 5.7.2013 6:00 PM

Science

Why Do People Believe Scientifically Untrue Things?

Because to do otherwise would be immoral.

Ronald Bailey | 3.15.2013 4:30 PM

Europe

Slovenia's Nuclear Power Plant Automatically Shut Down After Drop in Pressure

No danger of a leak officials say

Reason Staff | 2.25.2013 10:52 AM

Nuclear Power

Wash. Governor: Hanford Nuclear Site Tanks Leaking

Tanks are already long past intended life-span

Reason Staff | 2.22.2013 8:00 PM

North Korea

Steve Chapman on Making Sense of North Korea

Reason Staff | 2.18.2013 7:00 AM

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Making Sense of North Korea

Time to admit that North Korea wants a nuclear arsenal more than anything else.

Steve Chapman | 2.18.2013 7:00 AM

Iran

UN Watchdog: No Sign of Explosion in Iran

Backs up nation's denial of incident at nuclear plant

Reason Staff | 1.29.2013 6:30 PM

Japan

US Sailors Sue Japan over Fukushima Exposure

Claims government covered up dangers to rescue workers

Reason Staff | 12.26.2012 3:50 PM

Nuclear Power

Officials Mull Partial Restart of SoCal Nuclear Plant

Plant has been shut down for most of year due to safety problems

Reason Staff | 11.30.2012 7:23 PM

Nuclear Power

Japan Utility Says Nuclear Crisis Could Have Been Avoided

Did not implement severe accident response due to fears of possible lawsuits

Reason Staff | 10.12.2012 4:30 PM

Nuclear Power

Lengthy Review of Shuttered Calif. Nuclear Plant

May be months of years before it can be restarted

Reason Staff | 10.8.2012 10:52 PM

Japan

High Stress Found in Japanese Nuclear Plant Workers

They must have heard about those moths.

Reason Staff | 8.14.2012 6:30 PM

Green Climate Fund

Why Solyndra Hasn't Killed Government's Appetite for Green Pork: Cavanaugh on Russia Today

Tim Cavanaugh | 2.21.2012 4:30 PM

Animal Rights

The Donald Fires Himself; Cell Phone Ban; Fed Follies, And More: Reason Evening Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.13.2011 4:55 PM

Nuclear safety

Nuclear News Meltdown

What the media has gotten right-and wrong-about the Japanese nuclear disaster

S. Robert Lichter | 3.31.2011 4:30 PM

Tsunami

Radiation Non-Alert

Japan's broken nuclear reactors will have no detectable effect on the health of Americans.

Ronald Bailey | 3.29.2011 4:30 PM

Nuclear safety

Japan's Nuclear Nationalism

Japan has pushed nuclear energy hard-at the expense of safety

Shikha Dalmia | 3.29.2011 7:00 AM

Economics

The Truth About Nuclear Power

Separating economic myth from economic fact

Veronique de Rugy | 3.25.2011 12:00 PM

Nuclear safety

Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on Japan's Nuclear Nationalism

Reason Staff | 3.24.2011 11:12 AM

Energy

Nuclear Power's Unchanging Plight

Nuclear is the fuel of the future-and always will be

Steve Chapman | 3.21.2011 7:00 AM

Thorium

Nuclear Disaster in Japan

Does it show a way forward for nuclear power?

Ronald Bailey | 3.15.2011 4:45 PM

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