A Film Presses the Climate, Health and Security Case for Nuclear Energy
A new film stirs strong feelings and fresh thinking on nuclear energy.
View Article‘Pandora’s Promise’ Director and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Debate Nuclear Options
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., calls a film promoting nuclear power "an elaborate hoax."
View ArticleA Nuclear Submariner Challenges a Pro-Nuclear Film
A former Navy nuclear engineering officer criticizes a film defending nuclear power.
View ArticleIndian Point’s Tritium Problem and the N.R.C.’s Regulatory Problem
A spike in levels of tritium in groundwater near the Indian Point nuclear power plant raises questions about regulatory oversight.
View ArticleResearchers Propose Earth’s ‘Anthropocene’ Age of Humans Began With Fallout...
A research team assessing whether and when a new geological age shaped by humans began has settled on the mid 20th century, with plastics and nuclear bombs as markers.
View ArticleA Climate Hawk Separates Energy Thought Experiments from Road Maps
A progressive "climate hawk" says simplified road maps for solving the climate challenge are counterproductive.
View ArticleA Climate Campaigner (Bill McKibben) and Climate Change Critic (Anthony...
What happens when a nonstop climate campaigner, Bill McKibben, has a beer with a nonstop blogger on climate skepticism, Anthony Watts?
View ArticleThe Promise and Limits of Obama’s ‘Clean Power Plan’ for Limiting Global Warming
Assessing the strengths and limits of President Obama's "Clean Power Plan" for blunting climate change.
View ArticleFour Graphs Bolster Bill Gates’s Case for Greatly Boosting Clean-Energy Research
An illustrated guide to Bill Gates's argument for greatly boosted federal investment in energy R&D.
View ArticleHeck of a Class Project: An ‘Affordable, Robust, Compact’ Fusion Reactor...
A student-faculty team at M.I.T. publishes a design for an "affordable, robust, compact" fusion power plant.
View ArticleIn Paris, Negotiators Trim a Draft Climate Agreement, Climate Scientists...
Negotiators trim a climate agreement as climate scientists press for nuclear power and activists gird for failure.
View ArticleBill Gates, the ‘Impatient Optimist,’ Lays Out his Clean-Energy Innovation...
Bill Gates discusses the investment and research efforts he's pursuing to energize societies without overheating the climate.
View ArticleWhile They Were Shouting – A Botanist’s Lament About Presidential Politics
A lifelong student and defender of biological diversity laments the lack of a broader view of issues in today's presidential politics.
View ArticleYoung Analysts Press the Case for Innovation, and Tolerance, in Pursuing a...
Two young energy analysts offer a path past the tangled debates over how much to invest in deploying today's renewable-energy technologies and tomorrow's breakthroughs.
View ArticleStanford Audience Unmoved by an Informed Debate Over the Need for a Nuclear...
A vibrant debate, including a couple of Nobel Prize winners, tests the merits and drawbacks of nuclear power in a post-carbon world. The audience? Unchanged.
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