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Fukushima FAQs
This FAQ answers questions about the nuclear crisis in Japan.
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What Is MOX Fuel?
MOX fuel, short for mixed-oxide fuel, is a mixture of uranium and plutonium oxide. It carries risks.
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Nuclear Reprocessing: Dangerous, Dirty, and Expensive
Factsheet on the Reprocessing of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Reactors.
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Reprocessing & Nuclear Waste
Reprocessing increases the total volume of radioactive waste.
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The NRC and Nuclear Power Plant Safety in 2010
The first of a series of annual UCS reports on the NRC's performance in ensuring nuclear power plant safety.
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Financial Hazards of New Investments in Coal Plants
The electric power sector is placing new bets on an old technology—coal-fired power plants. But current economic, technological, and policy trends make such investments exceedingly risky.
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Nuclear Power Still Not Viable without Subsidies
This 2011 UCS report offers a comprehensive analysis of public subsidies to the nuclear power industry and evaluates their impacts and policy implications.
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The NRC's Reactor Oversight Process
The Reactor Oversight Process, which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission instituted to evaluate the safety and security performance of the nation’s 104 nuclear power reactors, recently passed the ten year mark.
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Regulatory Roulette
This report shows that the NRC is not living up to its self-stated mission when it comes to accidental releases of radioactive liquids and gases from nuclear power plants.
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The Most Expensive Thing We Can Do is Nothing
Top economists agree: Blocking California’s clean energy law will be costly.
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Control Rods at Peach Bottom
The workers at Peach Bottom artfully—and likely illegally—played games with safety and operating license requirements to keep the Unit 2 reactor operating despite known safety shortcomings.
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Nuclear Power Subsidies Will Shift Financial Risks to Taxpayers
Massive new subsidies will only further mask nuclear power’s considerable costs and risks while disadvantaging more cost-effective and less risky carbon reduction measures that can be implemented much more quickly.