From Hiroshima to Fukushima From Hiroshima to Fukushima
The problem with mankind wielding nuclear power isn’t about backup generators or safety rules—it’s our essential human fallibility.
Mar 15, 2011 / Jonathan Schell
Fukushima’s Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger Fukushima’s Spent Fuel Rods Pose Grave Danger
Even if reactor containment vessels hold, pools of spent fuel rods could combust and release clouds of radioactive cesium into the air—a calamity that could happen at US nucl...
Mar 15, 2011 / Christian Parenti
What a Spare $1 Million Can Buy What a Spare $1 Million Can Buy
BP's CEO "got his life back" by going yachting, and the rest of the world's millionaires are doing OK, too. But one Gulf fisherman would rather have something e...
Jun 22, 2010 / Laura Flanders
Zombie Nuke Plants Zombie Nuke Plants
Our crumbling atomic power stations and the government agency that loves them.
Nov 19, 2009 / Feature / Christian Parenti
Three Mile Island, the NRC and Obama Three Mile Island, the NRC and Obama
Thirty years after the Three Mile Island partial meltdown, the real nuclear power threat is the relicensing of old plants.
Mar 27, 2009 / Christian Parenti
Three Mile Island Three Mile Island
On the morning of September 11, 2001, after the second plane hit the World Trade Center and it was clear that the nation was under attack, US authorities issued an emergency aler...
Mar 18, 2004 / Mark Hertsgaard
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
The Enemy Within The Enemy Within
Snoozing guards at Los Alamos, missing vials of plutonium oxide... Yes, the headlines in late June were announcing "security lapses" again at national labs and nuclear weapons ...
Jul 2, 2003 / Column / Alexander Cockburn
No Nukes=Better Health No Nukes=Better Health
There wasn't much good news to report from the year 2000, but topping the list in health terms was the long-overdue final shutdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power station on Decem...
Jan 12, 2001 / Harvey Wasserman
The Plutonium Files The Plutonium Files
Eileen Welsome, a mild-mannered 48-year-old reporter laboring away in obscurity for a tiny afternoon newspaper in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is no one's idea of a media Bigfoot.
Feb 10, 2000 / Column / Eric Alterman