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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine temporary and permanent storage options for nuclear waste. The hearing also considered the future of the Yucca…

Edwin Lyman, acting director of the Nuclear Safety Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists and author of “Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster,” discusses nuclear power safety…

Mr. Walker talked about his book, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective, published by University of California Press. This accident on March 28, 1979, remains the worst accident…

The House considered a bill advancing efforts to create a national nuclear waste storage facility at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.

Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) announced on the chamber floor that he would block the House bill to make Yucca Mountain the official storage site of nuclear waste in the U.S. The House approved…

Former Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz talked about the nuclear threats facing the U.S. and the world.

The chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and two NRC commissioners testified at an oversight hearing for their agency. The witnesses answered a variety of questions on topics…

Kathryn Miles talked about her recent Boston Globe Magazine article on the safety concerns surrounding the closing of a nuclear plant in Massachusetts.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry testified before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on his department’s fiscal year 2018 budget request. Topics included proposed cuts to the budget as…

Edwin Lyman talked about nuclear waste safety and security.

Jonathan Stayer showed items, housed at the Pennsylvania State Archives, related to the nuclear incident at Three Mile Island in 1979. Mr. Stayer shared his personal story as a college student in the area at the time.…

Cindy Sounders talked about the Rocky Flats nuclear site that operated from 1952 to 1994, the cleanup effort since its closing, and its transition into a national wildlife refuge. The plant was located 15…

President Obama signed into law H.R. 2576, the “Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act,” which modernizes the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act. In remarks, President…

Benjamin Schwartz talked about his book, Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism, about what would happen if a nuclear bomb of unknown origin were to explode in Washington, D.C.…

Energy Department officials and executives from URS Corporation and Bechtel National testified at a hearing assessing the safety concerns and recent reports of whistleblower retaliation at the…

Whistleblowers who were fired after reporting nuclear safety issues at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant in Washington state told their personal stories to the chair and ranking member of a…

William Tobey talked about the work of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). NNSA is the lead agency charged with securing nuclear weapons, materials, and facilities.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz testified with other government officials and energy experts on S. 1240, the Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2013, which deals with the use of interim…

Kate Brown talked about her book, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters, in which she writes about the two cities, Richland,…

Karoun Demirjian talked a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that the Obama administration must continue a review of a potential nuclear waste dump under Yucca Mountain in Nevada, and he responded to telephone calls and…