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September 30, 2024
Mike Pearl
The Grim Truth Behind Microsoft’s Plan for Three Mile Island and A.I.
Can A.I. be green? Not like this—especially when the company is also selling its A.I. tools to oil and gas companies.
April 2, 2024
Mike Pearl
New Nuclear Plants Won’t Solve A.I.’s Energy Problem
Jennifer Granholm has floated the idea of giving A.I. data centers their own nuclear power plant.
June 29, 2023
Sarah Stankorb
Ohioans Keep Paying for Republicans’ Dirty Energy Scandal
Two Ohio politicians will be sentenced to potentially years in prison this week for their role in a scandal to prop up failing forms of energy. Somehow, Ohioans are still paying those bills.
December 14, 2022
Mike Pearl
The Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Is Great, Late, and Will Anger Nuclear Fission Fans
One day, nuclear fusion could offer an abundant source of clean energy. But we’re not there yet.
July 14, 2022
Liza Featherstone
It Took a Climate Crisis to Rehabilitate the Nuclear Power Industry
People who once feared reactor meltdowns and toxic waste have come to see nuclear energy as an acceptable alternative to the greater danger of fossil fuels.
December 23, 2020
Mike Pearl
The Green Fantasy and Messy Reality of Nuclear Power
Biden is flirting with the idea of rejuvenating the industry to help decarbonize the economy—and there are skeptics in spades.
November 17, 2020
Eric Margolis
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Put Japan’s Climate Policy in a Decade-Long Purgatory
Ten years after the meltdown, the country’s nuclear reactors remain shut down, and there’s no clear path to reducing emissions to net zero.
April 25, 2019
Gregg Levine
States Are Using Taxpayer Money to Greenwash Dirty Nuclear Power
New Jersey is the latest state to subsidize aging reactors with credits designated for clean energy.
April 5, 2019
Emily Atkin
It’s Not Just Pork: Trump Is Also Letting Nuclear Plants Regulate Their Own Safety
The administration's deregulation obsession is endangering Americans' health and safety.
June 1, 2018
Emily Atkin
Trump is preparing an actual bailout of the coal industry.
January 10, 2017
Eric Armstrong
Are Democrats the Party of Science? Not Really.
Until liberals truly embrace the spirit of scientific inquiry, they'll never gain the upper hand in the policy debates of the Trump era.
July 8, 2016
Jacob Silverman
Could Fukushima Happen Here?
"Indian Point," a new documentary about the nuclear power plant in New York, raises unsettling questions about the safety of atomic energy.
April 14, 2016
Leigh Phillips
People’s Fission
A supporter's plea for Bernie Sanders to change his mind and embrace nuclear energy.
March 30, 2016
Ben Adler
Is Bernie Sanders’s Nuclear Phaseout Plan a Hippie Pipe Dream or Smart Policy?
March 11, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
The Fukushima Fearmongers
What unites the left and right: a radioactive plume headed for the West Coast
July 14, 1986
Tom Johnson
Lessons of Chernobyl
For pro-nukes, for anti-nukes.
July 11, 1970
Ralph E. Lapp
Power-Hungry America: Where Will We Get the Energy
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