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Particulate Plutonium Released from the Fukushima Daiichi Meltdowns
July 2020
A new study reveals particles that were released from nuclear plants damaged in the devastating 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami contained small amounts of radioactive plutonium. View full article
Dissolution of radioactive, cesium-rich microparticles released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in simulated lung fluid, pure-water, and seawater
October 2019
Click here to view article Abstract: To understand the chemical durability of highly radioactive cesium-rich microparticles (CsMPs) released from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in March...
What Really Went Wrong at WIPP: An Insider’s View of Two Accidents at the Only US Underground Nuclear Waste Repository
July 2019
Within a 10-day period in February 2014, two accidents happened at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico – the United States’ only underground repository for nuclear waste.
Anomalous behavior of nonequilibrium excitations in UO2
April 2019
Click here to view article Abstract: Ultrafast optical pump-probe studies of uranium dioxide (UO2) under pressure were performed in order to better understand the material's response to ionizing...
Probabilistic Performance Assessment vs. the Safety Case Approach
January 2019
The “safety case” approach has been developed to address the issue of evaluating the performance of a geologic repository in the face of the large uncertainty that results for evaluations that...
Evolution and Structure of the Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management
December 2018
The final disposal of nuclear waste is at the interface between the technologies of the nuclear fuel cycle that produce the waste and the natural hydrologic and geochemical cycles of geologic...
Mission Impossible? Socio-technical Integration of Nuclear Waste Geological Disposal Systems
November 2018
Abstract: We present a new perspective on geological disposal systems for nuclear waste.
Questions for the presidential candidates on nuclear terrorism, proliferation, weapons policy, and energy
September 2016
Stanford expert Siegfried Hecker proposes a series of nuclear weapons and energy questions that journalists and citizens should consider asking the 2016 presidential candidates.
Le Rayonnement de la France: énergie nucléaire et identité nationale après la Seconde Guerre mondiale
April 2014
This is a French translation of The Radiance of France, by the same author (MIT Press, 2009)From MIT Press: "In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in the...
For the People
January 2014
CISAC's Siegfried Hecker and Abbas Milani, founding co-director of the Iran Democracy Project here at Stanford, write in this Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists analysis that Iran must move beyond...
Nuclear denial: From Hiroshima to Fukushima
September 2013
Abstract: Governments and the nuclear power industry have a strong interest in playing down the harmful effects of radiation from atomic weapons and nuclear power plants.
Disowning Fukushima: Managing the credibility of nuclear reliability assessment in the wake of disaster
July 2013
Abstract: This paper reflects on the credibility of nuclear risk assessment in the wake of the 2011 Fukushima meltdowns.
Lessons Learned from “Lessons Learned”: The Evolution of Nuclear Power Safety after Accidents and Near-Accidents
June 2012
Blandford and May review the major lessons learned from nuclear power accidents, and assess the impact those lessons have had on nuclear power, specifically, which measures were put into place to...
The Causes of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation
March 2011
Abstract: This critical review of the new political science literature on the causes of nuclear weapons proliferation consists of four parts.
Nuclear Latency and Nuclear Proliferation
July 2010
First paragraph of the book chapter: How quickly could individual governments, starting from different levels of nuclear-related expertise and technology, develop a nuclear weapon if they chose to...
North Korea's Choice: Bombs Over Electricity
July 2010
Nuclear power and nuclear weapons have a common technological foundation.
Multinational Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
April 2010
Introduction With the recent attention to new nuclear power, the challenge of managing the spread of nuclear technology has increased.
The Key Role of the Back-end in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
January 2010
This two-volume special issue of Daedalus highlights the challenges associatedwith the global expansion of nuclear power.
Despite Economic Downturn, Nuclear Energy Commerce is still Worrisome
December 2009
Article Highlights The economic crisis has quieted talk of a nuclear renaissance, but that doesn't mean the need to manage nuclear energy's potential global spread has lessened.
The Growth of Nuclear Power: Drivers & Constraints
October 2009
Many countries around the world are taking a fresh look at nuclear power.
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