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Geotimes May 2006 Naomi Lubick	Yucca Mountain e-Mails Reviewed The content of e-mails sent by U.S. Geological Survey employees that raised concern over work at Yucca Mountain -- site of the controversial future nuclear waste repository in Nevada -- should not affect the final scientific assessments of the site, according to an analysis.
Geotimes January 2005 Fred Schwab	Mount Everest, Nevada The United States entered the nuclear age more than a half-century ago, but has not yet resolved what to do with nuclear waste.
Wired April 2003 David Ewing Duncan	Do-or-Die at Yucca Mountain The regulatory tug-of-war over Nevada's nuclear waste dump has dragged on for decades. Meanwhile, temporary sites across the country are overflowing with radioactive fuel rods -- making them perfect targets for terror.
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever	A Loophole Threatens Yucca Mountain The House of Representatives recently passed its version of the energy and water bill, providing $749 million less than the Department of Energy says is necessary to push forward with the nation's nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada, threatening to delay the projedt indefinitely.
Mother Jones Sep/Oct 2001 Jon Christensen	Yucca Mountain: Nuclear Roulette The government is relying on some Vegas-style oddsmaking as it moves ahead with plans to bury deadly radioactive waste at Nevada's Yucca Mountain...
Geotimes May 2005 Naomi Lubick	Falsification Alleged at Yucca Mountain E-mail exchanges sent between 1998 and 2000, by unnamed U.S. Geological Survey scientists, reveal possible data fabrications during the federal quality assurance procedure for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
IEEE Spectrum July 2008 Sally Adee	U.S. Critics Hope to Halt Nuclear-Waste Imports Utah firm wants Italian isotopes
Popular Mechanics February 27, 2008 Joanna Borns	Florida Outage Aside, New Plants Pave Clean Road for Nuke Power The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) just offered its annual outlook for the future of nuclear power, and it's optimistic.
Chemistry World October 7, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Los Alamos lab's safety lapses faulted for radioactive leak A radioactive material leak that affected 22 workers and closed the US's only permanent nuclear waste repository was likely the result of a failure to follow safety procedures.
Geotimes July 2006 Linda Rowan	Expanding Nuclear Options The Bush administration recently proposed significant changes to U.S. nuclear policy to resolve some of our current waste disposal problems and to accelerate the development of new nuclear power capacity.
Mother Jones Jul/Aug 2002 Susan Q. Stranahan	Radioactive Recycling If the Department of Energy has its way, the nation's nuclear garbage could end up in everyday items like bicycles, frying pans, and baby strollers.
BusinessWeek September 5, 2005 John Carey	Maybe In My Backyard High fuel prices and global warming are making nuclear power an easier sell.
Chemistry World July 31, 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Bury Radioactive Waste, UK Government Told Radioactive waste should be stored deep underground at sites where local communities have had the opportunity to participate in, and even withdraw from, the planning process.
Chemistry World February 6, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Nuclear Storage: Ready, Willing, Able, and Undecided A report into the UK's long term nuclear waste storage plans has concluded there are no insurmountable technical barriers to storing nuclear waste deep underground. Between a third and two-thirds of the UK is geologically suitable for storing waste.
Salon.com December 10, 2001 Damien Cave	Nukes now! Post-Sept. 11, isn't it time to get off our fossil fuel fixation and take another look at nuclear power?
Wired February 2005 Schwartz & Reiss	Nuclear Now! How clean, green atomic energy can stop global warming.
Chemistry World May 23, 2012 Rebecca Trager	NRC chief quits with a bang Gregory Jaczko, who has served as the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission chairman since May 2009 and a member of the commission since 2005, has been a contentious figure.
The Motley Fool April 1, 2004 Rich Smith	Will America Go Nuclear? Seven companies join forces to design America's next-generation reactor.
Chemistry World September 2006 Neil Hyatt	Comment: Out of Sight, Out of Mind? The recent recommendations from the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management should prompt a renewed research effort to tackle the problems of nuclear waste storage in the UK.
Geotimes March 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Mineral Crumbles Under Nuclear Heat When it comes to storing nuclear waste, it turns out that zircon can't take the heat. A new, high-resolution look at the mineral -- previously thought to be a model material for storing nuclear waste -- reveals that it is quick to succumb to radiation damage.
National Defense January 2009 Grace V. Jean	Future of Nuclear Energy Hinges on Recycling Technology The industry's Achilles' heel is the radioactive waste that is produced in the process of generating power, experts say.
Mother Jones Jul/Aug 2001 Peter Klebnikov	The Texas Solution The federal government is facing a glut of radioactive waste -- and a contract to bury some of it could be worth millions to one of George W. Bush's top fundraisers...
Popular Mechanics October 2006 Moore & Aurilio	The Great Nuclear Debate Here are some compelling arguments both for and against pursuing nuclear power as an answer to the country's energy problems.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 Peter Fairley	Nuclear Wasteland With visions of nuclear electricity "too cheap to meter" long gone, the case for breeder reactors has shifted from creation of new fuels to management of spent fuels. The French are recycling nuclear waste. Should other countries follow suit?
Salon.com May 10, 2002 Douglas Cruickshank	How do you design a "Keep Out!" sign to last 10,000 years? The Department of Energy is creating a vast monument to scare future trespassers away from radioactive waste sites. Their plan: A granite Stonehenge thing with warnings in Navajo...
Chemistry World October 26, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Plutonium Hitchhikers Take the Fast Stream The radioactive element plutonium can travel through groundwater despite its low solubility: it hitches a ride on tiny colloid particles in the water.
Fast Company July 1, 2007	Too-Fast Cities Five spots where the risks outweigh the upside. Cairo, Egypt... Almaty, Kazakhstan... Greenwich, Connecticut... Las Vegas, Nevada... Shenzhen, China...
Chemistry World February 15, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	UK Nuclear Policy Setback UK government plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations have suffered a setback after a public consultation on nuclear power was condemned by a High Court judge as 'inadequate' and 'misleading'.
Geotimes November 2004 Megan Sever	Fusion Stalemate Fusion as a viable energy source for the future... A "Takeout" nuclear plant...
Geotimes April 2007 Sally Adee	IAEA Updates Radiation Warning Symbol The International Atomic Energy Agency unveiled its new design of the international symbol for radiation. Dozens of accidental exposures to radiation motivated this change.
The Motley Fool September 26, 2007 Rich Smith	America Goes Nuclear NRG Energy has filed an application to build the first new nuclear power reactor in the U.S. since the Three Mile Island incident in 1979.
IEEE Spectrum December 2009 Sandra Upson	Finland's Nuclear Waste Solution Scandinavians are leading the world in the disposal of spent nuclear fuel
Chemistry World November 20, 2009 Simon Hadlington	Nuclear waste research resurfaces The UK government's recent announcement of a significant expansion for nuclear power generation has rekindled the debate over the safe disposal of radioactive waste.
Geotimes February 2005 Lubick & Sever	An Austere Budget for 2006 The overall winners in the Bush administration's budget proposal for next year were, once again, the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. For science agencies, it was a mixed bag, with global observation systems faring well, but with research in energy resources taking some hard hits.
Geotimes August 2005 Katie Donnelly	The State of Nuclear Nonproliferation Several nuclear-related topics not only are important to the nation's security, but also are scientifically interesting.
IEEE Spectrum November 2011	What Next for Nuclear? IEEE Spectrum asked the experts how to build a safer and stronger nuclear industry
Geotimes June 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Legal victory for mining In Barrick Goldstrike Mines vs. EPA, now being heralded as a victory for the mining industry, the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., ruled in April that mine operators do not have to report trace metals in waste rocks to the EPA.
Chemistry World November 2, 2007 Victoria Gill	UK Nuclear Waste Disposal Plans Too Soon and Too Scanty UK scientists have urged the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to amend its plans to ask the public to volunteer to host an underground nuclear waste store.
National Defense April 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Security Teams Toughen Training Program The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the power plant industry are laying the groundwork for creating an adversary team to test security at the 104 licensed facilities in the United States. Their goal is to standardize force-on-force training at the nation's nuclear power plants.
TIME Asia February 28, 2011 Eben Harrell	Nuclear Batteries Hyperion Power Generation Inc. offers the nuclear battery -- so called because it is cheap, small and easily transportable and has many environmental benefits. It also has its detractors.
National Defense February 2004 Geoff S. Fein	Energy Dept. Commandos: 'As Good as the Military' The Department of Energy is seeking to beef up its team of commandos, which is trained to help protect nuclear weapons facilities in the United States.
Chemistry World January 10, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Atomic Inspection for Nuclear Waste Storage Scientists have announced a new way to assess the safety of storing nuclear waste. Already, the method has shown that the ceramic mineral zircon, a candidate for storing nuclear waste for over 250,000 years, would lose its ordered structure in a far shorter time.
Geotimes October 2004 Dere, Martin & Wallace	Energy Issues Take Center Stage in Senate Races Earth science issues, such as the future of Yucca Mountain or petroleum drilling in Alaska, may not take center stage in the minds of many voters, but they do figure into some prominent U.S. Senate races this year.
Chemistry World March 3, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Sulfide Sponge Could Clean up Nuclear Waste A new material that can extract radioactive strontium ions from solutions could help to clean up nuclear waste, according to researchers in the US.
Chemistry World March 17, 2011 Ned Stafford	Uncertainty for nuclear power Political fallout from the Japanese disaster has spread to Europe and will no doubt have a lasting impact on nuclear power policy and research funding.
Chemistry World January 10, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Green Light for UK Nuclear Power The UK government has formally announced its long-awaited decision to support a new generation of nuclear power stations. Scientists, while welcoming the government's decision, also warned that plenty of detailed decisions remained.
BusinessWeek July 8, 2010 Charlie Rose	Charlie Rose Talks to Anne Lauvergeon A conversation with Anne Lauvergeon; the French call the CEO of the largely state-owned nuclear power company Areva "Atomic Annie."
Industrial Physicist Aug/Sep 2003	Letters New thinking?... Relativity and clocks... New bachelor?... etc.
Popular Mechanics July 15, 2008 Phaedra Hise	Mini Reactors Show Promise for Clean Nuclear Power's Future If new portable reactors get the green light this month, nuclear energy could be rolled out in the furthest reaches of the United States.
BusinessWeek September 13, 2004 Richard S. Dunham	What's Scaring Bush In These Swing States Efforts to garner an electoral majority have been complicated by a series of local obstacles in key battlegrounds. The challenges range from wobbly state economies to demographic shifts and not-in-my-backyard environmental fights.