Cold War, Hot Mess
After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.
After decades of mismanaging its nuclear waste, the US Department of Energy wrestles with its toxic legacy.
Lois Parshley Virginia Quarterly Review Oct 2021 40min Permalink
The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water, and people.
Jonathan Thompson High Country News Jul 2021 15min Permalink
After Fukushima, balancing the risk of another disaster against the rising danger of climate change.
Carolyn Kormann New Yorker Dec 2019 30min Permalink
An oral history of the disaster:
Someone said to me, or maybe I read it, that the problem of Chernobyl presents itself first of all as a problem of self understanding. That seemed right. I keep waiting for someone intelligent to explain it to me.
Svetlana Alexievich n+1 Oct 2015 15min Permalink
For decades a group of radical Catholics, many of them nuns, have been keeping up the good fight against nuclear weapons.
Eric Schlosser New Yorker Mar 2015 1h15min Permalink
Visiting the site of the Chernobyl meltdown.
George Johnson National Geographic Oct 2014 10min Permalink
The fifty-year battle over where we store our nuclear remains.
Matt Stroud The Verge Jun 2012 40min Permalink