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Opinion
8 September 2011
Nuclear WeaponsNuclear Energy

A multinational fuel consortium: Obstacles, options, and ways forward

Olli Heinonen

The harnessing of the atom to develop a nuclear bomb 70 years ago unleashed a magnitude of terrifying destruction the world had never witnessed before. The same atomic power also resulted in an "atoms for peace" program, which gave the world nuclear power as a clean source of energy and benefited humanity in the development of nuclear medicine, agriculture, and sciences.

Opinion
7 September 2011
Climate ChangeNuclear Energy

The coming German energy turnaround

Claudia Kemfert

Following the terrible catastrophe at Fukushima, Germany's government has decided to usher in a sustainable energy turnaround that entails switching off all of the country's nuclear power plants by the year 2022. In the spring of 2011, in fact, eight nuclear power plants were immediately and irreversibly taken off line. The nuclear phase-out is not fundamentally new; in principle, Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union government is re-adopting the policies of the previous "red-green" Social Democrat-Green Party coalition.

Opinion
7 September 2011

Nature and malice: Confronting multiple hazards to nuclear power infrastructure

Duyeon Kim

Over the past six months, two geological events in Japan and the United States had similar characteristics but very different outcomes. At Fukushima, 40-plus-year-old reactors shut down as designed on March 11 following a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, but the combination of ruptured offsite power supply lines and generators flooded by the ensuing tsunami led to a massive meltdown.

Columnists
7 September 2011

Regime change for nuclear security

Fissile Materials Working Group

Almost no country in the world would refuse an invitation to join a collective declaration acknowledging nuclear terrorism as one of the most challenging threats to global security. However, defining a common view about how to advance practical measures that will prevent nuclear terrorism is not so easy. When it comes to nuclear security, it has always been difficult to go from statements to actions.

Claudia Kemfert

Kemfert is a professor of Energy Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and head of the Department of Energy, Transportation, and Environment at the German Institute of Economic Research

Antony Froggatt

Froggatt is an independent energy consultant based in London and a part-time senior research fellow at Chatham House. He has testified before the Austrian and German parliaments and the European Union.

Olli Heinonen

Before joining as a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Heinonen spent 27 years at the International Atomic Energy Agency

1 September 2011

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Volume 67 Issue 5

Columnists
1 September 2011

The human element

Hugh Gusterson

The discussions about the safety of nuclear reactors in the new post-Fukushima world have focused on technical questions: Is it possible to make reactors earthquake-proof? What is the best way to ensure that spent fuel remains safe? What is the optimal design for coolant systems? Can reactors be made "inherently safe"?

1 September 2011
Erratum

Erratum

1 September 2011
Interview

Paul R. Ehrlich: Seeking environmental solutions in the social sciences

1 September 2011
The Fukushima issue

Surviving the one-two nuclear punch: Assessing risk and policy in a post-Fukushima world

Edwin S. Lyman
1 September 2011
Features

Managing networks of risk: A tailored approach to Iran’s biological warfare threat potential

Kirk C. Bansak
1 September 2011
Features

How to build a better sepulcher: Lessons from New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant

Jon Goldstein
1 September 2011
Nuclear notebook

British nuclear forces, 2011

Hans M. KristensenRobert S. Norris

The United Kingdom has been the most successful of all the nuclear weapon states in terms of creating a minimum nuclear deterrent; in fact, there is reason to believe that the country is considering whether to move toward denuclearization.

1 September 2011
The Fukushima issue

Nuclear or not? The complex and uncertain politics of Japan’s post-Fukushima energy policy

Masa Takubo
1 September 2011
The Fukushima issue

Deconstructing the zero-risk mindset: The lessons and future responsibilities for a post-Fukushima nuclear Japan

Tatsujiro Suzuki
1 September 2011
The Fukushima issue

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima: An analysis of traditional and new media coverage of nuclear accidents and radiation

Sharon M. Friedman
1 September 2011
The Fukushima issue

The radiological and psychological consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi accident

Frank N. von Hippel
1 September 2011
The Fukushima issue

Fukushima: The myth of safety, the reality of geoscience

Johannis NöggerathRobert J. GellerViacheslav K. Gusiakov
Columnists
29 August 2011
Nuclear Energy

\ˈsāf\: America's nuclear power plants?

Dawn Stover

When the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission released its task force's recommendations for enhancing reactor safety in response to the Fukushima Daiichi accident, an editorial in the Washington Post summarized the findings this way: "America's plants are safe. But they could be safer."

Agree to Disagree
25 August 2011

Nuclear power: Between faith and fear

Sharon Squassoni

Several years ago, an American utility executive said, "Nuclear energy is a business, not a religion." This was a refreshing change from the usual ardent support or criticism of nuclear energ

Sharon Squassoni

Squassoni directs the Proliferation Prevention Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Prior to joining CSIS, she was a senior scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Robert Rosner

Rosner is the William E. Wrather distinguished service professor in the departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Physics at the University of Chicago.

Stephen Goldberg

Goldberg is the special assistant to the director at Argonne National Laboratory, USA, where he is actively engaged in several international projects on the economics of nuclear energy, as well as in a key study on the economics of small modular

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