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Opinion
25 September 2013
Nuclear EnergyNuclear Weapons
Americas

The uranium processing fiasco

Peter StocktonLydia Dennett

The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration have birthed another boondoggle—a Uranium Capabilities Replacement Project slated to run billions of dollars over budget and 20 years behind schedule. It’s long past time to see if there isn’t a better solution. 

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
20 September 2013
AmericasEurope/Russia

Action, not arguments

Jaime Aguirre Gómez

Discussing humanitarian arguments in favor of disarmament, the author argues that now is not the time for more argumentation. Instead, countries that don't have nuclear weapons must exert strong, sustained pressure to disarm on nations that do have these weapons.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
20 September 2013
AmericasEurope/Russia

الأفعال وليس المناقشات

Jaime Aguirre Gómez: AR
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
20 September 2013
AmericasEurope/Russia

Acciones, no palabras

Jaime Aguirre Gómez: ES
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
20 September 2013
AmericasEurope/Russia

行动，而非论证

Jaime Aguirre Gómez: CH
Columnists
18 September 2013
Nuclear Energy
Asia

Suzuki's Fukushima updates

Tatsujiro Suzuki

In this column, the vice chairman of the Japan Atomic Energy Commission provides frequent, raw updates of the events unfolding at Fukushima. 

Book Review
11 September 2013
Climate ChangeNuclear Energy

A false fix for climate change

John Dudley Miller

An environmental activist’s e-book unpersuasively argues for 800 new nuclear power plants as the solution to climate change, making many of the same mistakes as the film Pandora’s Promise.

Opinion
9 September 2013
Nuclear Energy
Asia

Fixing Fukushima’s water problem

Lake H. Barrett

The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station needs a new plan for dealing with millions of gallons of radioactive water on its grounds. The plan should include better public outreach, improved cleanup processes and capacities, and, when radiation standards are met, a controlled release of water into the sea.

Columnists
29 August 2013
Nuclear Energy
Americas

Duck and cover

Dawn Stover

The evacuation plans governments draw up in case of a nuclear accident or attack may not work.

Opinion
23 August 2013
Nuclear Energy
Asia

Thinking outside Fukushima

Charles D. Ferguson

The time is now for international expertise. 

14 August 2013
Nuclear EnergyNuclear Weapons
AmericasEurope/Russia

Let August nuclear anniversaries spur action

Kennette Benedict

Complacency and entrenched interests keep the weapons industrial complex in place.

Analysis
1 August 2013
Nuclear Energy
AsiaEurope/Russia

Contaminated forests: Management after Chernobyl and Fukushima

Winifred BirdJane Braxton Little

After nuclear accidents, radioactive contamination migrates from forests into soil. Officials at Fukushima and Chernobyl have taken completely different approaches to decontamination.

Explain This
29 July 2013
Nuclear Energy
Americas

Nuclear plant decommissioning

Dave Lochbaum

Dave Lochbaum, director of the Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists, explains how nuclear plants are decommissioned in the United States. 

Analysis
17 July 2013
Nuclear EnergyNuclear Weapons
Americas

Nuclear weapons: The death of fusion?

Daniel Clery

Nuclear fusion’s roots in weapons research may work against its development as a civilian energy source.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
16 July 2013
Asia

Women and energy: A package deal

Tri Mumpuni

As this Roundtable has established, women shoulder most of the burdens associated with poor energy access in the developing world.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
16 July 2013
Asia

المرأة والطاقة: صفقة شاملة

Tri Mumpuni (AR)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
16 July 2013
Asia

Las mujeres y la energía: una oferta en paquete

Tri Mumpuni (ES)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
16 July 2013
Asia

妇女与能源：一揽子交易

Tri Mumpuni (CH)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 July 2013
Asia

Energy, women, and governance

Kalpana Sharma

The differences in opinion among participants in this Roundtable are modest. To the extent they exist, they probably correlate to differences among the authors' home countries.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 July 2013
Asia

الطاقة النساء والحوكمة

Kalpana Sharma (AR)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 July 2013
Asia

能源、妇女及治理

Kalpana Sharma (CH)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
4 July 2013
Asia

La energía, las mujeres y la gobernanza

Kalpana Sharma (ES)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
1 July 2013
Asia

Village autonomy is not rural romanticism

Dipak Gyawali

Tri Mumpuni has discussed how privatization in the Indonesian energy sector has alienated poor people, particularly women, from local resources.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
1 July 2013
Asia

الموارد المحلية والمنفعة المحلية

Tri Mumpuni (AR)
Development and Disarmament Roundtable
1 July 2013
Asia

Recursos locales, beneficios locales

Tri Mumpuni (ES)

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