Tag Archives: nuclear security

A Nuclear Power Perspective for 2026

A longer version of this article was published by The Center for the National Interest and it can be found here. The United States’ approach to nuclear energy in 2025 was characterized by typical Trumpian bravado. It offered expansive executive orders, a dose of new reactor rugged individualism, and a warm embrace of government-financed projects.…
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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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