Fixing America’s Nuclear Waste Storage Problem Fixing America’s Nuclear Waste Storage Problem
The spent-fuel pools at our reactors, containing thousands of tons of poorly protected but highly radioactive waste, are a catastrophe waiting to happen.
Jun 20, 2011 / Robert Alvarez
The Legacy of Hanford The Legacy of Hanford
Washington continues to evade responsibility for forty-seven years of contamination.
Jul 31, 2003 / Feature / Robert Alvarez
Letters Letters
GREECE [heart] MACEDONIA New York City Dusko Doder's assertion, in "Balkans Breakdown" [April 30], that Greece was against the Former Yugoslav Republic ...
May 17, 2001 / Letters / Robert Alvarez, Dusko Doder, William D. Hartung, and Dimitris Gemelos
DU at Home DU at Home
Depleted uranium constitutes one of largest radioactive and toxic-waste byproducts of the nuclear age. Over the past half-century, 700,000 metric tons of DU--more than half of a...
Mar 22, 2001 / Feature / Robert Alvarez
Aid for Nuclear Workers Aid for Nuclear Workers
Madame Curie's denial of radiation dangers is emblematic of the legacy we now face as America's romance with the atom draws to a close.
Sep 25, 2000 / Editorial / Robert Alvarez