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Siegfried Hecker: Putin has destroyed the world nuclear order. How should the democracies respond?
April 2022
One of the world’s foremost nuclear security and policy experts, Sig Hecker has spent much of an illustrious career working to enhance cooperation among US and Russian scientists and their...
Nuclear reactors in a war zone: A new type of weapon?
March 2022
As the tragedy in Ukraine unfolds before the world with each day darker than the next, Russian saber rattling with nuclear weapons is only a part of the nuclear concern.
A close call at Ukraine reactor: On luck and nuclear disasters
March 2022
As a scholar working in the field of nuclear disasters, I watched in horror as Russia tried to capture the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant—likely for strategic military purposes, or to control the...
Can reactor fuel debris be safely removed from Fukushima Daiichi?
February 2022
More than a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) disaster, an international team of researchers uncovered critical new information related to the retrieval and management of...
Stanford Scholar Explores Humans’ Complicated History with Earth’s Mineral Riches in New Book
March 2021
With the support of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Gabrielle Hecht will research and write a new book about the mineral riches humans have turned the world inside out to unearth.
Stanford experts discuss the lessons and legacy of the Fukushima nuclear disaster
March 2021
A decade after a powerful earthquake and tsunami set off the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown in Japan, Stanford experts discuss revelations about radiation from the disaster, advances in...
Fukushima’s tragic legacy—radioactive soil, ongoing leaks, and unanswered questions
March 2021
CISAC Co-Director Rod Ewing tells National Geographic that, “In some cases, as we become more sophisticated, we’ve lost the ability to see what’s most obvious.”
Socio-technical multi-criteria evaluation of long-term spent nuclear fuel management strategies: A framework and method
February 2021
Currently, commercial spent fuel remains at 75 sites across the US, including 18 “orphaned sites,” where it has been left at decommissioned reactor sites. Local communities are increasingly concerned...
Newly Discovered Particles Released During the Fukushima Daiichi Meltdowns
February 2021
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant released particles containing radioactive cesium during the 2011 nuclear disaster. New research published in Science of the Total Environment shows that some...
Three major nuclear accidents, as seen by young American and Russian professionals
August 2020
Young American and Russian professionals examined three major nuclear accidents to assess the causes, responses and consequences. They worked across cultural and disciplinary divides and arrived at a...
If Trump and Biden agree there shouldn’t be a nuclear waste site at Yucca Mountain, can’t we all?
August 2020
Both have announced their opposition to building an underground repository to permanently store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Now it's time for everyone else to accept that Yucca...
Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns released particulates with plutonium
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.
Being Clear-Eyed About Citizen Science in the Age of COVID-19
July 2020
An anthropologist explores the network of citizen monitoring capabilities that developed after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 for what they might teach all of us about such...
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