Tag: Nuclear power
Chernobyl at 40: Secret Stasi files reveal extent of Soviet misinformation...
Lauren Cassidy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
On April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear...
US and Iran: A brief history of how decades of mistrust...
Jeffrey Fields, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
With U.S. bombs raining down on Iran and Tehran’s...
Nuclear in your backyard? Tiny reactors could one day power towns...
Aditi Verma, University of Michigan
You might imagine nuclear power plants as behemoth facilities spanning hundreds of acres. Nuclear...
NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon –...
Michelle L.D. Hanlon, University of Mississippi
The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, landing...
The treaty meant to control nuclear risks is under strain 80...
Stephen Herzog, Middlebury
Eighty years ago – on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945 – the U.S. military dropped atomic...
‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will have Americans paying higher prices for dirtier energy
Daniel Cohan, Rice University
When congressional Republicans decided to cut some Biden-era energy subsidies to help fund their One...
Military force may have delayed Iran’s nuclear ambitions – but history...
Stephen Collins, Kennesaw State University
While the U.S. military’s strikes on Iran on June 21, 2025, are believed to...
Uranium enrichment: A chemist explains how the surprisingly common element is...
André O. Hudson, Rochester Institute of Technology
When most people hear the word uranium, they think of mushroom clouds,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Why the future of marijuana legalization remains hazy despite high public support
William Garriott, Drake University
Thousands of Americans will soon gather to celebrate April 20 – or “4/20” – the...
