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To mark the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl's disaster and the lessons it still holds for us today, The Nation has assembled a collection of articles from our archives.

The world’s second-largest economy is emerging as a pacesetter in solar and wind technology.

On April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine exploded, precipitating the worst nuclear disaster in history. Now, on the twenty fifth anniversary of the explosion, it is worth revisiting this horrific episode and to reflect on the lessons we still have not learned.

Even as Fukushima threatens to unleash the greatest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl, the president champions nuclear power in the United States.

The 1979 partial meltdown prompted more regulations and greater enforcement. Then in the 1990s, a Republican Congress took aim.

The problem with mankind wielding nuclear power isn’t about backup generators or safety rules—it’s our essential human fallibility.

The message out of Fukushima is clear: our own fleet of leaky old nuclear plants should be decommissioned now.

There are no effective “safeguards” against nuclear disasters, and Japan’s crisis is only the latest display of the overwhelming risks involved in splitting atoms for energy.

America's nuclear power plants are poorly managed and regulated, and it's time they were taken out of commission.

Sorry, President Obama, but there is a dimension of fear properly associated with the word nuclear that is not matched by any oil spill.