This report estimates that from 1944 to 2009, about 12.7 metric tons of plutonium were discarded at U.S. nuclear weapon production facilities. This is more than three times than the U.S. Department of Energy’s last official estimate of waste losses made in 1996.
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.
Despite his pledge to seek nuclear disarmament, Obama is investing big in the nuclear complex.
The Department of Energy has to stop funding its nuclear complex. Otherwise, forget about a new energy future for the United States.
Grist Magazine interviews Bob Alvarez on the risks of nuclear power.
U.S. military “outreach” on Africa’s seas and land is in search not of pirates but of oil.
President Obama should renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement, with an eye toward reducing poverty and joblessness that lead Mexicans to the black market or over the border.
Hernandez discusses his family and life in “the box.”
Saul Landau continues his interview with one of the imprisoned Cuban Five members.
Saul Landau interviews one of the imprisoned members of the Cuban Five, Gerardo Hernandez.
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.
An analysis of the impacts of reprocessing U.S. nuclear power spent fuel.