Japan’s Katrina Moment
In the cargo-container communities of Japan’s disaster areas, one finds echoes of post-Katrina New Orleans.
Green Scissors for Congress
The United States can’t afford giveaways for mining and oil companies anymore.
Drinking MOX-Laced Lemonade
The government is spending $15 billion to create a nuclear fuel derived from plutonium that we have to bribe companies to take.
A Radioactive Conflict of Interest
Having the Energy Department manage radiation health research makes as much sense as giving tobacco companies the authority to see if smoking is bad for you.
Broken Planet
Is there intelligent life on Earth?
Saul Landau Film Series: Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang
As a lead up to The Institute’s 50th birthday, on the 4th Wednesday of each month IPS will host a film series featuring eleven of the widely respected film productions of our colleague, Saul. After each screening participants will have the opportunity to discuss the films with distinguished guests.
Dashed Hopes for Baghdad Breakthrough
The West showed little flexibility in recent negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program as the hopes for a diplomatic solution grow dimmer.
Nuclear Tuna and NPR’s Trivialization
NPR shouldn’t trivialize the risk of radioactive tuna from the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Japan, Nuclear Energy, and the TPP
Japan is about to replace its nuclear plants with something just as risky.
Fukushima Team Under Constant Pressure to Protect Interests of Nuclear Power
The Japanese coalition government is still woefully unprepared to handle crises like Fukushima.
Why Fukushima Is a Greater Disaster than Chernobyl and a Warning Sign for the U.S.
The radioactive inventory of all the irradiated nuclear fuel stored in spent fuel pools at Fukushima is far greater and even more problematic than the molten cores.
Two Years After IPS Study, Department of Energy Moves to Dispose Plutonium
More than 12.7 metric tons of plutonium that were previously declared “already disposed” will be discarded in a deep geological site away from humans.
Improving Spent-Fuel Storage at Nuclear Reactors
Storing spent radioactive fuel in dry form rather than in increasingly jammed cooling pools is much safer, and can be done with already available funds.
No Nuclear Nirvana on the Horizon
Nearly a year after the Fukushima disaster and more than three decades after the Three Mile Island accident, nuclear power remains expensive, dangerous, and too radioactive for Wall Street.
Pit of Pits: Los Alamos Proposed Plutonium Facility
The U.S. nuclear-weapons program is awash in nuclear-warhead triggers.