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Are Nuclear Energy Expansion Critics Correct?

Are Nuclear Energy Expansion Critics Correct?
A longer version of this article will be published soon by The Center for the National Interest and it can be found here. In the sea of enthusiasm for the global expansion of commercial nuclear power, there are modern day Nostradamus’ confidently predicting failure. “Most SMRs are on paper […] These are fun ideas. But the tech…
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Reframing Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Policy

Reframing Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Policy
A longer version of this article was published by the Center for the National Interest and it can be found here. For decades, a third rail of US nuclear power policy has been reprocessing spent fuel and extracting the plutonium. The country has alternately supported and suspended reprocessing over the past decades, and now the pendulum seems to…
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Nuclear Power and Nuclear Proliferation

As the Preventing Nuclear Anarchy report featured in our Spotlight makes clear, the unsettled state of global affairs, intensifying geopolitical tensions, technology advancements, and the erosion of the nuclear nonproliferation regime has increased interest in the potential value of possessing nuclear weapons in some countries, including some staunch U.S. allies in Europe, North East Asia, and the Middle East.…
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South Korea Is Risking Its Nuclear Success

South Korea Is Risking Its Nuclear Success
A longer version of this article was published by The Center for the National Interest and it can be found here. South Korea is blowing a big opportunity to participate in the U.S. nuclear energy buildout, and time is not on its side. To achieve the Trump administration’s objective of beginning construction on 10 new large reactors by…
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