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Earthquake Could Cause Los Alamos Plutonium Facility To Collapse

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | June 27, 2013

An earthquake could collapse the building at Los Alamos National Laboratory, N.M., where plutonium cores of nuclear bombs are produced, releasing deadly doses of radiation, the Department of Energy’s inspector general reported on Thursday Read More »

How A Massive Nuclear Nonproliferation Effort Led To More Proliferation

Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith | The Atlantic | June 24, 2013

More than a decade of negotiations with Russia produced a clear winner, and it was not the United States. Read More »

Start-Ups Fuel Boom In Small-Scale Nuclear Power

Martin LaMonica | New Scientist | April 11, 2014

A new wave of nuclear scientists aim​s to build small-scale reactors that provide carbon-free power more cheaply and safely than today’s huge power plants

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