Nuclear Policy

Statement of senior scholar Robert Alvarez before the Subcommitee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment, U.S. House of Representatives regarding the legacy of nuclear weapons testing in the Marshall Islands.

Robert Siegel gets a primer on nuclear material and storage from Robert Alvarez, who served as a senior policy adviser to the Secretary of Energy during the Clinton administration.

Hopefully Obama’s new commission will motivate the country to finally deal with the toxic legacy of the nuclear age.

The doses of radiation experienced in everyday life, especially flying long distances in jet aircraft, pose risks we should carefully heed.

The Obama administration is making no moves to answer the call for a new energy future.

A closer look at what Obama’s energy priorities really are for the next fiscal year.

Mandate for Change offers a set of specific policy proposals for the incoming Obama administration on every major domestic and international topic, written specifically for the book by leading thinkers and activists in the field.

Among Steven Chu’s most daunting challenges will be reforming the Energy Department itself.

Nuclear energy is not the right alternative for the United States.

Many Democrats and Republicans oppose the accord because of fears that Russia is providing Iran with nuclear and military assistance. There are also bipartisan concerns about its potential nonproliferation problems.

Coming to terms with nuclear weapons in 2009.

A critrical review of the U.S. Government’s efforts to establish global nuclear markets.

A critical review of the history of nuclear power and its prospects for mitigating the impacts of global warming.

Despite extraordinary dependence on foreign oil, the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2009 budget does little to find alternatives.

President George W. Bush has recently intensified efforts to revive nuclear recycling.

An analysis of the impacts of reprocessing U.S. nuclear power spent fuel.

This 2003 report underscored the dangers posed by the practice of storing spent fuel on-site at nuclear power plants in the United States. It remains relevant today as Japanese engineers struggle to prevent a nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima, Japan.

Until recently, concerns about attacks on nuclear power plants focused mainly on the vulnerability of reactors. Spent fuel ponds may be even more difficult to safeguard.

An assessment of the environmental, safety and health Impacts of the Cerro Grande Fire on Los Alamos National Laboratory,