Section 1. Purpose. Abundant energy is a vital national- and economic-security interest. In conjunction with domestic fossil fuel production, nuclear energy can liberate America from dependence on ...
The Trump administration is reportedly reconsidering a decades-old nuclear radiation standard in a bid to accelerate the construction of power plants. Proponents of the overhaul argue that the ...
The NRC has moved quickly to modernize licensing while working to preserve the independence and technical rigor that underpin ...
Editor’s note: This article is published after the passing away of Dan Hirsch. The draft manuscript was prepared by all authors. It has been lightly edited for style, length, and clarity. In May, ...
The resilience of bad ideas is both damaging and demoralizing. Strong evidence of this can be found in “The Bad Science Behind Expensive Nuclear,” a new Works in Progress essay. Writer Alex Chalmers ...
Now it is official. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) decisively upheld the Linear No-Threshold model to prescribe radiation safety standards, ending the protracted controversy on the topic ...