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"Dear Arjun" columns
- Human Health and Radiation (Vol. 17, No. 1)
- Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free States (Vol. 16, No. 3)
- Reprocessing, Mythology versus Reality (Vol. 16, No. 2)
- What is RESRAD? / Where is Reference Man? / Carbon Free, Nuclear Free Statement of Principles (Vol. 15, No. 4)
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Issue #36)
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Vol. 14, No. 2)
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm (Vol. 12, No. 4)
- The “Usable” Nuke Strikes Back / Back to the Bad Old Days (Vol. 11, No. 4)
- Health Survey at an Indian Nuclear Power Plant / Peace Plan for South Asia (Vol. 11, No. 1)
- Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Vol. 10, No. 3)
- Poison in the Vadose Zone (INEEL) (Vol. 10, No. 1)
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Vol. 9, No. 4)
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Issue #18)
- Ionizing Radiation / Uranium (Vol. 8, No. 4)
- Worker Doses, Global Truth Commission (Issue #14)
- Waste Transmutation / Energy for Peace; Nuclear Power Deception (Vol. 8, No. 3)
- Wind Versus Plutonium / Fuel Cells (Vol. 8, No. 1)
- Wind Power versus Plutonium (Issue #11)
- Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Vol. 7, No. 2)
- Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (double issue with Vol. 7 No.1) (Vol. 6, No. 4)
- Nuclear Power, No Solution to Global Climate Change (Vol. 6, No. 3)
- Worker Radiation Dose Records Deeply Flawed / Let Them Drink Milk (Iodine-131) (Vol. 6, No. 2)
- Technical Aspects of the Use of Weapons Plutonium as a Reactor Fuel (Vol. 5, No. 4)
- Radioactivity in the Fernald Neighborhood (Vol. 5, No. 3)
- Special Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration Issue (Vol. 4, No. 3)
- Nuclear Testing and Weapons Design (Vol. 4, No. 2)
- Disposing of Fissile Materials (Vol. 4, No. 1)
- Extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (Vol. 3, No. 3)
- How Many Nuclear Weapons is Enough? (Vol. 2, No. 3)
- Sound Science and Freedom of Information ? (Vol. 2, No. 2)
- Low-Dose Radiation Exposure / Clean-up of Contaminated Sites (Vol. 1, No. 2)
- The Democratization of Science / Plutonium, A Resource or a Waste? (Vol. 1, No. 1)
Audio/Video
- Trump nominee acknowledges role in under reporting radiation in drinking water (Scripps News story by Mark Greenblatt)
- Nuclear Energy Post Fukushima: BBC interviews Arjun Makhijani and Jonathan Cobb
- July 4th and July 14th: The story of two revolutions (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- The Trinity Test (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination: (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- The US Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Deal: (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- Will Maryland Pioneer Offshore Wind Farming in America? (The Real News Network, April 27, 2017)
- New York State should switch to electric heating systems to save money, environment
- Radiation Spikes at Fukushima: Living on Earth interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Thorium (Th): BBC interviews scientists on thorium, including IEER’s Arjun Makhijani (2016)
- California Nukes To Shut Down; New York Nukes Troubled: Living on Earth interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Nuclear Security Summit 2016: KPFA interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Radioactive Waste Still Leaking Five Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- More Nuclear Power Plants Shutting Down (Living on Earth interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- A carbon-free and nuclear-free New York? (WCNY Radio)
- Removing fuel rods from Fukushima Unit 4 (Up Front interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Radioactive Rainwater Overwhelms Fukushima Nuclear Plant (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Building a Frozen Wall at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant (The Takeaway Radio)
- Record Radiation Levels At Fukushima Nuclear Plant (The Real News Network TRNN)
- What if the Fukushima Ice Wall Defrosts? (PBS NewsHour with Arjun Makhijani)
- A look at nuclear power: do risks outweigh benefits? (CCTV America)
- Fukushima toxic water leak may get upgraded to ‘serious incident’ (KPCC Radio Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- BBC World News: Radioactive water leaks at stricken Fukushima Daiichi reactors
- Fukushima Reinforces Worst Fears for Japanese Who Are Anti-Nuclear Power (PBS NewsHour)
- Making the Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy Economy Real (Clearing the FOG radio)
- Radioactive Water from Fukushima in the Pacific (Living on Earth Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Storing Renewable Energy (Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- Closing Pressurized Water Reactors (Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- Small modular reactors, same nuclear problems (archived webinar featuring Arjun Makhijani)
- Carbon Free and Nuclear Free (Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- Nuclear Waste Management: Alan Stahler Interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Groups Rebut the Waste Storage Claims of Nuclear Industry
- From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (video)
- Role of Energy in Economic and Global Security (Voice of Russia interview)
- Kindle Project Blog features IEER and Arjun Makhijani, for IEER’s 25th Anniversary in 2012
- Fukushima Disaster: Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Science Friday: Is Thorium a Magic Bullet for Our Energy Problems?
- Arjun Makhijani talks to Helen Caldicott on the downsides of thorium reactors
- Minnesota Public Radio: Nuclear power safety one year after Fukushima disaster
- Fukushima Anniversary: KPFA’s Philip Maldari interviews Arjun Makhijani and Kevin Kamps
- No More Solyndras: Groups Call on DOE to Release Vogtle Delay & Cost Overrun Information
- CBC News: Nuclear Tension, Fukushima, TV interview with Arjun Makhijani
- KHOU-TV: EPA underreports radiation in America’s drinking water (2011)
- Fukushima and Food Contamination: Between the Lines’ Scott Harris interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Hammer Forum: The Death of the Nuclear Renaissance (Video)
- Fukushima Meltdowns: Between the Lines’ Scott Harris interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Suspend All Nuclear Reactor Licensing; Conduct “Credible” TMI-Style Review
- EnergyNow TV: Carbon and Nuclear Free in 40 Years? Interview with Arjun Makhijani (Video)
- Nuclear And Coal Have No Place In A “Clean” Energy Standard
- KTNF AM 950: The Minnesota nuclear moratorium
- The Diane Rehm Show: Nuclear Power Plant Future
- What will it take to phase out fossil fuels and nuclear energy? (KBOO Radio)
- Non-Proliferation Treaty RevCon: NPT TV with Arjun Makhijani
- The Mythology and Messy Reality of Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
- Nuclear Waste Contract FOIA Results
- Industry Setbacks Further Dim Nuclear Renaissance: PSR Press Conference
- San Antonio Clean Tech Forum Nuclear Panel
- Progressive radio: Arjun Makhijani on a carbon-free nuclear-free future
- Earthbeat radio: Daphne Wysham interviews Arjun Makhijani
- EarthSky: Arjun Makhijani believes nuclear power too costly, risky
- A New Energy Model for Spain
- Living on Earth (radio): Three Mile Island, 30 Years Ago
- Minnesota Legislature: Discussion of nuclear power
- Locus Focus (radio): Arjun Makhijani on the Nuclear Power Fiasco
- Inside Track: Arjun discusses proliferation of nuclear weapons
- Democracy’s Edge: Should We Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Bomb? Radio interview of Arjun Makhijani, with hosts Diane Kamp and Dave Zollinger (KMMS-AM, Bozeman, Montana)
- List of more interviews and articles from 2008 by Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free
- Earthbeat radio: Carbon Taxes and Nuclear Debate
- Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore Debate the Future of Nuclear Energy
- KOHO Radio (WA): Debate between Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore on the future of nuclear energy
- KUOW Radio (WA): Ross Reynolds interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-free, Nuclear-free energy
- U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Arjun interview on PBS NewsHour
- Plutonium Discrepancies in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex
- Video: Nuclear Power and Global Warming (David Kraft interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- An Update on Nuclear Power – Is It Safe? (Video of Arjun Makhijani, requires RealPlayer)
- A Nuclear Incident “Worse Than Three Mile Island” (Living on Earth Radio)
- Unaccounted-for plutonium at Los Alamos (Arjun Makhijani interview with Progressive Radio)
- NPR’s Talk of the Nation “Taking a Second Look at Nuclear Power” (Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Call for October 2 Actions
- The G-8 and Global Apartheid
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Parties Meet in New York
- Oil and War or Wind?
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 3 of 3)
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 2 of 3)
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 1 of 3)
- Money, Oil, and Security
- Occupation of Iraq
- The Great Northeast Blackout
- Drought threatens nukes
- Nuclear Waste threatens water resources
- Anniversary of the First Nuclear Test: Investigate the Fallout and Downwinders
- Radiation and Health, the Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant and Worker Health
- Plutonium Dreams: Making Plutonium a Commercial Fuel
- Wall Street Nixes Nukes?
- Dr. Arjun Makhijani on Nuclear Pits Facilities
- Dr. Arjun Makhijani on Atomic Vets
- Nuclear targeting turns 60
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Parties Meet in Geneva
- The War IS About Oil, Here’s What We Should Do
- History Offers Insights in North Korea Nuclear Dispute
- Broken Pledges
- Oil, GM, Chevron/Texaco and energy policy
- Radioactive Milk in America
- War Will Not Stop Nuclear Proliferation
- Yucca Mountain and the Dilemma of High Level Nuclear Waste (Arjun Makhijani on WILL Focus 580 Radio)
Blue Ribbon Commission
Books
- Hydrogen: What Good is it?
- Exploring Tritium Dangers
- Prosperous, Renewable Maryland: Roadmap for a Healthy, Economical, and Equitable Energy Future (The Book)
- Energy Justice in Maryland’s Residential and Renewable Energy Sectors (The Book)
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change
- Manifesto for Global Democracy
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law?
- Ecology and Genetics
- Nuclear Wastelands
- The Nuclear Power Deception
- Atomic Audit
- Mending the Ozone Hole
- Fissile Materials in a Glass, Darkly
- Plutonium: Deadly Gold of the Nuclear Age
- High-Level Dollars, Low-Level Sense
- Radioactive Heaven and Earth
- Energy and Agriculture in the Third World
- A Time to Choose: America’s Energy Future
Carbon emissions
- Renewable energy microgrids and reducing the risk of grid-triggered wildfires in California (Sacramento Bee, December 2018)
- A Clean Energy Pathway for New Jersey (2017)
- Heat pumps should be part of New York State’s energy future
- NYSERDA’s Renewable Heating and Cooling Policy Framework (2017): IEER Comments
- Making Residential Heating and Cooling Climate-Friendly in New York State (revised July 2017)
- Testimony on Minnesota’s Nuclear Moratorium at the Senate Energy and Environment Committee
- IEER Comments on the EPA Proposed Clean Power Plan
- Small modular reactors, same nuclear problems (archived webinar featuring Arjun Makhijani)
- An efficient and fully renewable energy system in the United States by 2050
- eUtah: A Renewable Energy Roadmap
- Role of Smart Grid and Energy Storage in a Renewable Electricity System
- Nuclear Costs and Alternatives
- Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Renewable Electricity System in the U.S.
- List of more interviews and articles from 2008 by Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free
- San Antonio’s Bright Energy Future
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Healthy from the Start / Tritium (Issue #38)
- Fernald Waste Management / Radium and Plutonium Transport (Issue #37)
- Fernald Waste Management / Radium and Plutonium Environmental Transport (Vol. 14, No. 3)
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Vol. 14, No. 2)
- Our Electric Future: A Non-Nuclear Low Carb Diet?
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 3 of 3)
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 2 of 3)
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 1 of 3)
- Drought threatens nukes
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Vol. 9, No. 4)
- Wind Power versus Plutonium (Issue #11)
- Japan’s Plutonium Plans vis-a-vis the Tokai Incident
- A Gamble on Global Warming
- Nuclear Power, No Solution to Global Climate Change (Vol. 6, No. 3)
- Nuclear Power No Solution to Global Climate Change (Issue #5)
Climate Change
- The Trouble with STRIDE: Meeting climate goals and addressing natural gas system stranded costs
- A report for Just Solutions on the role of long-duration energy storage in a decarbonized and resilient electricity sector.
- Report on water requirements for hydrogen production prepared for Just Solutions
- Energy Affordability in Maryland
- Small modular reactors will not save the day
- An analysis of a transition from conventional row crops to regenerative organic production
- Why Small Modular Reactors Won’t Help Counter the Climate Crisis
- Achieving Montgomery County’s Ambitious Ambitious Climate Goals: Sketch of a Vision
- Why is nuclear power a poor approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Renewable energy microgrids and reducing the risk of grid-triggered wildfires in California (Sacramento Bee, December 2018)
- A Clean Energy Pathway for New Jersey (2017)
- The US Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Deal: (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- New York State should switch to electric heating systems to save money, environment
- NYSERDA’s Renewable Heating and Cooling Policy Framework (2017): IEER Comments
- Making Residential Heating and Cooling Climate-Friendly in New York State (revised July 2017)
- Beyond a Band-Aid: A Discussion Paper on Protecting Workers and Communities in the Great Energy Transition
- This Changes Everything: free showing (Friday, February 26) of film by Naomi Klein & panel discussion to follow
- Energy Justice in Maryland’s Residential and Renewable Energy Sectors
- Nuclear Power and Climate Change (a short paper)
- Testimony on Minnesota’s Nuclear Moratorium at the Senate Energy and Environment Committee
- Energy Efficient and Pollution-Free Space Heating and Cooling in Maryland
- IEER Comments on the EPA Proposed Clean Power Plan
- Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy Economy Is Inevitable (truth-out.org)
- Making the Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy Economy Real (Clearing the FOG radio)
- Small modular reactors, same nuclear problems (archived webinar featuring Arjun Makhijani)
- Renewable Minnesota: A technical and economic analysis of a 100% renewable-energy based electricity system for Minnesota
- An efficient and fully renewable energy system in the United States by 2050
- Washington, Wall Street Mired On Energy (National Journal Expert Blog)
- Time to close the chapter on U.S. nuclear power
- EnergyNow TV: Carbon and Nuclear Free in 40 Years? Interview with Arjun Makhijani (Video)
- Nuclear And Coal Have No Place In A “Clean” Energy Standard
- eUtah: A Renewable Energy Roadmap
- What Can the U.S. Do To Cut Carbon? (National Journal Expert Blogs)
- A US nuclear future?: Commentary in Nature.
- What Fits The Bill? (National Journal Expert Blog)
- Role of Smart Grid and Energy Storage in a Renewable Electricity System
- Matching Utility Loads with Solar and Wind Power in North Carolina
- Testimony in Favor of Minnesota’s Nuclear Moratorium
- Can Obama Re-energize Climate? (National Journal Expert Blog))
- Do Hacked E-mails Change Climate Debate? (National Journal Expert Blog)
- Kerry-Boxer: Worth the Wait? (National Journal Expert Blog)
- San Antonio Clean Tech Forum Nuclear Panel
- Progressive radio: Arjun Makhijani on a carbon-free nuclear-free future
- Earthbeat radio: Daphne Wysham interviews Arjun Makhijani
- EarthSky: Arjun Makhijani believes nuclear power too costly, risky
- A New Energy Model for Spain
- Nuclear Costs and Alternatives
- Minnesota Legislature: Discussion of nuclear power
- Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Renewable Electricity System in the U.S.
- Locus Focus (radio): Arjun Makhijani on the Nuclear Power Fiasco
- List of more interviews and articles from 2008 by Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free
- Earthbeat radio: Carbon Taxes and Nuclear Debate
- Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore Debate the Future of Nuclear Energy
- What is RESRAD? / Where is Reference Man? / Carbon Free, Nuclear Free Statement of Principles (Vol. 15, No. 4)
- San Antonio’s Bright Energy Future
- Statement of Hugh B. Haskell Regarding the Approval of New Nuclear and Coal-Fired Power Plants in NC
- KOHO Radio (WA): Debate between Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore on the future of nuclear energy
- KUOW Radio (WA): Ross Reynolds interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Deseret News (Utah): Nuclear power, not renewable energy, is risky course for U.S., by Arjun Makhijani
- Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-free, Nuclear-free energy
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free, A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (Vol. 15, No. 1)
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free – A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (Issue #39)
- Video: Nuclear Power and Global Warming (David Kraft interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Issue #36)
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Vol. 14, No. 2)
- Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change
- Low-Carbon Diet without Nukes in France
- Our Electric Future: A Non-Nuclear Low Carb Diet?
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm (Vol. 12, No. 4)
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm (Issue #30)
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 3 of 3)
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 2 of 3)
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 1 of 3)
- Drought threatens nukes
- Oil, GM, Chevron/Texaco and energy policy
- Two Case Studies of Environmental-Security Connections
- The Cheney Energy Plan: Technically Unsound and Unsustainable
- The Nuclear Power Deception
- A Gamble on Global Warming
- Nuclear Power, No Solution to Global Climate Change (Vol. 6, No. 3)
- Nuclear Power No Solution to Global Climate Change (Issue #5)
- Untapped Energy Efficiency
- Crying Wolf About Kyoto
- Climate Change and Transnational Corporations: Analysis and Trends
- A Time to Choose: America’s Energy Future
Commentary
- Experts recommend indefinite delay of Japan’s plan to dump over a million tons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean
- Article on equality and climate benefits of investing in clean energy affordability
- Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons: The Connections
- Renewable energy microgrids and reducing the risk of grid-triggered wildfires in California (Sacramento Bee, December 2018)
- TerraPower’s Nuclear Reactor Could Power the 21st Century (IEEE Spectrum): June 1, 2018
- Trump nominee acknowledges role in under reporting radiation in drinking water (Scripps News story by Mark Greenblatt)
- Nuclear Energy Post Fukushima: BBC interviews Arjun Makhijani and Jonathan Cobb
- July 4th and July 14th: The story of two revolutions (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- The Trinity Test (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination: (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- The US Withdrawal from the Paris Climate Deal: (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- Radiation and Gender: One Basis for New Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NIRS & IEER Statement)
- Radiation Spikes at Fukushima: Living on Earth interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Thorium (Th): BBC interviews scientists on thorium, including IEER’s Arjun Makhijani (2016)
- California Nukes To Shut Down; New York Nukes Troubled: Living on Earth interview with Arjun Makhijani
- More Nuclear Power Plants Shutting Down (Living on Earth interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Nuclear Power and Climate Change (a short paper)
- On life near two nuclear power plants in Illinois: an interview with Cindy and Joe Sauer
- Building small modular reactors senseless (Knoxville News Sentinel)
- Kindle Project Blog features IEER and Arjun Makhijani, for IEER’s 25th Anniversary in 2012
- Slow or Fast, Nuclear Fission is Not the Answer (Yale Environment 360)
- Science Friday: Is Thorium a Magic Bullet for Our Energy Problems?
- May 5, a historic date in nuclear weapons and nuclear power: Kyodo News op-ed
- NY Times: Confidence Slips Away as Japan Battles Nuclear Peril
- Minnesota Public Radio: Nuclear power safety one year after Fukushima disaster
- Fukushima Anniversary: KPFA’s Philip Maldari interviews Arjun Makhijani and Kevin Kamps
- Is nuclear energy different than other energy sources? (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- Washington, Wall Street Mired On Energy (National Journal Expert Blog)
- CBC News: Nuclear Tension, Fukushima, TV interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Fukushima and Food Contamination: Between the Lines’ Scott Harris interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Reactor Proponents Are Batting 0-6 in State Legislatures in 2011 (PR Newswire)
- Hammer Forum: The Death of the Nuclear Renaissance (Video)
- Internal Dose Estimates Needed in Area of Fukushima Daiichi Plant (in Japanese and English)
- Fukushima Meltdowns: Between the Lines’ Scott Harris interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Splashlife: Counterpoint: It’s Time to Close the Chapter on U.S. Nuclear Power
- Message from Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (Mark Selden, editor)
- Time to close the chapter on U.S. nuclear power
- Spent nuclear fuel pools vulnerable to terrorist attacks (Kyodo News)
- How does Japan’s Crisis Affect America’s Nuclear Industry? (National Journal Expert Blogs)
- Universal Transparency: A Goal for the U.S. at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit (Arms Control Today)
- Nuclear And Coal Have No Place In A “Clean” Energy Standard
- The Diane Rehm Show: Nuclear Power Plant Future
- What Can the U.S. Do To Cut Carbon? (National Journal Expert Blogs)
- A US nuclear future?: Commentary in Nature.
- What Fits The Bill? (National Journal Expert Blog)
- Civil Liability for Nuclear Claims Bill, 2010: Is Life Cheap in India?
- Non-Proliferation Treaty RevCon: NPT TV with Arjun Makhijani
- Nuclear Waste Contract FOIA Results
- BOOK REVIEW: Consequential Damages of Nuclear War; The Rongelap Report
- Can Obama Re-energize Climate? (National Journal Expert Blog))
- Do Hacked E-mails Change Climate Debate? (National Journal Expert Blog)
- Kerry-Boxer: Worth the Wait? (National Journal Expert Blog)
- Should Yucca Mountain Remain An Option? (National Journal Expert Blogs)
- List of more interviews and articles from 2008 by Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free
- KOHO Radio (WA): Debate between Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore on the future of nuclear energy
- KUOW Radio (WA): Ross Reynolds interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Nuclear Is Not the Right Alternative Energy Source
- Deseret News (Utah): Nuclear power, not renewable energy, is risky course for U.S., by Arjun Makhijani
- Plutonium Discrepancies in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex
- Our Electric Future: A Non-Nuclear Low Carb Diet?
- The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal and Iran (Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Atomic Myths, Radioactive Realities: Why Nuclear Power Is a Poor Way to Meet Energy Needs
- Readiness to Harm – The Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Complexes (written by Arjun Makhijani for Arms Control Today)
- NPR’s Talk of the Nation “Taking a Second Look at Nuclear Power” (Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Kashmir, Nuclear Weapons and Peace
- Call for October 2 Actions
- The G-8 and Global Apartheid
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Parties Meet in New York
- Oil and War or Wind?
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 3 of 3)
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 2 of 3)
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 1 of 3)
- Yucca Mountain – An Example Not to Follow
- Money, Oil, and Security
- Occupation of Iraq
- The Great Northeast Blackout
- Drought threatens nukes
- Anniversary of the First Nuclear Test: Investigate the Fallout and Downwinders
- Radiation and Health, the Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant and Worker Health
- Plutonium Dreams: Making Plutonium a Commercial Fuel
- Wall Street Nixes Nukes?
- Dr. Arjun Makhijani on Nuclear Pits Facilities
- Nuclear Targeting: The First 60 Years
- Nuclear targeting turns 60
- Radioactive Milk in America
- War Will Not Stop Nuclear Proliferation
- More Sign Posts for Peace in South Asia
- A Bad Approach To Nuclear Waste
- A Complex, Ill-Defined War on Terrorism (Medicine and Global Survival, Vol. 7 No. 2)
- If not Yucca Mountain, then what?
- Reducing plutonium storage risks in light of September 11, 2001
- Pursuing justice for the crimes of September 11, 2001 and reducing the risks of terrorism
- Reflections on September 11, 2001
- Government should bear the burden of proof in Compensation cases
- Scrap plans for fast breeder reactor
- Arjun Makhijani The Nuke Slayer (Discover Magazine)
- Saddam’s last laugh
- A Chinese Perspective on National Missile Defense
- Uranium and You: How Many Birth Defects and Cancers Should Be Allowed in the Name of National Security?
- Your Very Own Cold War Souvenir: What to do with the country’s radioactive legacy
- An Alternative Plan for Plutonium Disposition
- On 50th anniversary of Soviet atomic test, time to reassess nuclear weapons
- Paducah — Never Again
- A Gamble on Global Warming
- Untapped Energy Efficiency
- Crying Wolf About Kyoto
- Heading Off the Plutonium Peril
- “Always” the target?: While U.S. bomb scientists were racing against Germany, military planners were looking toward the Pacific
- What ‘Non-Nuclear’ Japan Is Not Telling the World: and How Tokyo Keeps Its Options Open
- Open the files, please: Japanese government rhetoric about its “nuclear allergy” is not entirely persuasive; it’s time to clear the air
- Racism, Resources and Nuclear Weapons: Some Reflections on the Rodney King Case
- Strategic Bombing
Depleted Uranium
- Comments to the NRC on low-level radioactive waste disposal
- NRC Briefing on Greater-Than-Class C Radioactive Waste
- Comments to the NRC on low-level waste disposal
- Follow-up Memo to NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane
- BRC Draft Report: Yakama Nation ERWM Program Comments by IEER
- Unique Waste Streams Rulemaking (10 CFR Part 61) – including Depleted Uranium Disposal: IEER Comments to the NRC
- DOE, Take Back Depleted Uranium Sent to Utah and Send No More
- Depleted Uranium Waste, NRC is on the Wrong Track: IEER Comments
- Depleted Uranium Waste Rulemaking: Notes from the Sept. 2009 NRC Workshop
- NRC Ignores Depleted Uranium Risks
- Science for the Vulnerable: Setting Radiation and Multiple Exposure Standards
- Presentation to the Rocky Mountain Low-Level Radioactive Waste Board on Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission Deals Blow to Depleted Uranium Disposal Plans
- Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Vol. 13, No. 2)
- Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Issue #32)
- Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES (plus 2005 update)
- Comments on the proposed uranium enrichment plant in New Mexico
- Environmental and Legal Concerns About Modern War (Vol. 11, No. 2)
- Precision Bombing, Widespread Harm (Issue #24)
- Worker Doses, Global Truth Commission (Issue #14)
- Comments on Long-Term Management and Use of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
- Comments on DOE Notice of Intent on Management and Use of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
Disarmament and Nonproliferation
- Reflections on the 79th anniversary of the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and our present predicament, with recommendations for reducing nuclear dangers. Prepared for Just Solutions.
- Articles on the health and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons testing at the major test sites
- Issues related to the environmental remediation of the harm from nuclear weapons testing and use
- The Trinity Test (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- NGO discussion during the nuclear weapon ban treaty negotiations at the UN on rising nuclear dangers
- United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination: (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- Radiation and Gender: One Basis for New Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NIRS & IEER Statement)
- Thorium (Th): BBC interviews scientists on thorium, including IEER’s Arjun Makhijani (2016)
- Nuclear Security Summit 2016: KPFA interview with Arjun Makhijani
- U.S. NGOs Urge Prompt Action to Make Nuclear Disarmament a Global Enterprise (Press Release)
- Assessing the Harm from Nuclear Weapons Testing and Production (Vienna Conference 2014. Slide presentation)
- From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (video)
- 70 years after first atomic reaction, anti-nuclear movement presses on (Midwest Energy News)
- Reprocessing, Mythology versus Reality (Vol. 16, No. 2)
- Universal Transparency: A Goal for the U.S. at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit (Arms Control Today)
- Non-Proliferation Treaty RevCon: NPT TV with Arjun Makhijani
- U.S.-India Nuke Deals Raise Fears (audio, video, and transcript via Democracy Now!)
- Inside Track: Arjun discusses proliferation of nuclear weapons
- Comments to the DOE on the Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic EIS
- DOE Complex Transformation / French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Vol. 15, No. 3)
- DOE Complex Transformation, French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Issue #41)
- Comments on DOE’s Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplement to the Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic EIS – Complex 2030
- U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Arjun interview on PBS NewsHour
- Plutonium Discrepancies in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex
- Comments on the Los Alamos Site Wide EIS
- Press Statement of Arjun Makhijani on the U.S.-India Nuclear Deal
- Unaccounted-for plutonium at Los Alamos (Arjun Makhijani interview with Progressive Radio)
- Dangerous Discrepancies: Missing Weapons Plutonium in Los Alamos National Laboratory Waste Accounts
- Comments on the Draft EIS for the Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to Production of Radioisotope Power Systems
- Uranium Enrichment / Gorbachev and the U.S. People (Vol. 13, No. 1)
- Uranium Enrichment / Gorbachev and the U.S. People (Issue #31)
- Uranium Enrichment
- Call for October 2 Actions
- The G-8 and Global Apartheid
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Parties Meet in New York
- Oil and War or Wind?
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside / Nuclear Targeting (Issue #28)
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside / Nuclear Targeting (Vol. 12, No. 2)
- NATO’s Nuclear Conflict / Democratizing Money (Vol. 12, No. 1)
- Money, Oil, and Security
- “Usable” Nuke / NATO Nuclear / Bad Old Days (Issues #26 and #27)
- NATO and Nuclear Disarmament
- Occupation of Iraq
- The “Usable” Nuke Strikes Back / Back to the Bad Old Days (Vol. 11, No. 4)
- Comments on the U.S. Department of Energy Draft Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on Stockpile Stewardship and Management for a Modern Pit Facility
- Radiation and Health, the Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant and Worker Health
- Government Data Projects Worker Cancer Deaths at New Plutonium Bomb Factory
- Plutonium Dreams: Making Plutonium a Commercial Fuel
- Dr. Arjun Makhijani on Nuclear Pits Facilities
- Nuclear Targeting: The First 60 Years
- Secret First Atomic Weapon Targeting Decision Sixty Years Ago Subverted Purpose of the Bomb Project, New Assessment Reveals
- Nuclear targeting turns 60
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Parties Meet in Geneva
- History Offers Insights in North Korea Nuclear Dispute
- Ignoring North Korea now would be big mistake: The Progressive, March 2003
- What is Precision Bombing?
- Environmental and Legal Concerns About Modern War (Vol. 11, No. 2)
- Precision Bombing, Widespread Harm (Issue #24)
- Letter to members of the United Nations Security Council
- War Will Not Stop Nuclear Proliferation
- Compliance Assessment of North Korean and U.S. Obligations Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and 1994 Agreed Framework
- Open letter from people in the United States to people all over the world
- Evaluation of NPT Compliance and the Review Process To Date
- IEER Comments on the Modern Pit Facility Notice of Intent
- Comments to NRC on white papers regarding the proposed enrichment plant in Tennessee
- Multilateral Treaties Are Fundamental Tools for Protecting Global Security
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law? (Vol. 10, No. 4)
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law? (Issue #22)
- Russian and US Experts Respond to Summit Arms Reduction Treaty
- A road map to peace
- Past and Future of Nuclear War
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law?
- Nuclear Dangers and the State of Security Treaties
- The Challenge before India and Pakistan – Dialogue – an Imperative
- Danger of Nuclear Exchange in South Asia Greater Than Ever Before, Says Former Chief of the Indian Navy
- October 2, Gandhi’s birthday
- On the September 11, 2001 tragedy
- De-alerting Russian and US nuclear weapons: A path to reducing nuclear dangers
- Endorsement statement for de-alerting
- Revival of Pyroprocessing Technology for Nuclear Fuel in Bush Administration Energy Plan Poses Serious Proliferation Dangers
- Law and the Nuclear Establishment (NATO; COGEMA) (Vol. 9, No. 3)
- Law and the Nuclear Establishment / NATO / COGEMA (Issue #17)
- A Chinese Perspective on National Missile Defense
- Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Plutonium End Game
- 161 Organizations Around the World Speak Out Against the Use of Plutonium as a Nuclear Fuel on International “Nix Mox” Day (Press Release)
- Waste Transmutation / Energy for Peace; Nuclear Power Deception (Vol. 8, No. 3)
- Nuclear Disarmament and South Asia
- Energy for Peace (Issue #13)
- Nuclear Disarmament, the NPT, and the Rule of Law
- The Clinton visit & disarmament
- Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Vol. 8, No. 2)
- Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Issue #12)
- Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on National Missile Defense Deployment
- Sign the CTBT & Speak with Authority
- The Future of Nuclear Policy: Deterrence and the Danger of Proliferation: The Urgency of De-Alerting
- Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (double issue with Vol. 7 No.1) (Vol. 6, No. 4)
- Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (Double Issue #6 and #7)
- Comments on the Department of Energy’s Surplus Plutonium Disposition Draft Environmental Impact Statement
- Dangerous Thermonuclear Quest
- The Use of Weapons Plutonium as Reactor Fuel (Issue #3)
- India’s Options
- Technical Aspects of the Use of Weapons Plutonium as a Reactor Fuel (Vol. 5, No. 4)
- The International Civilian Reprocessing Business (Issue #2)
- Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship (Vol. 5, No. 2)
- The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen
- Reprocessing Relapse / Tritium Production (Vol. 5, No. 1)
- Special Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration Issue (Vol. 4, No. 3)
- Nuclear Testing and Weapons Design (Vol. 4, No. 2)
- “Always” the target?: While U.S. bomb scientists were racing against Germany, military planners were looking toward the Pacific
- Disposing of Fissile Materials (Vol. 4, No. 1)
- Open the files, please: Japanese government rhetoric about its “nuclear allergy” is not entirely persuasive; it’s time to clear the air
- Extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (Vol. 3, No. 3)
- Plutonium as a Liability / Dangers of Plutonium (Vol. 3, No. 2)
- How Many Nuclear Weapons is Enough? (Vol. 2, No. 3)
Distributed Energy
Economic Issues
- A report for Just Solutions on the role of long-duration energy storage in a decarbonized and resilient electricity sector.
- Energy Affordability in Maryland
- 100% Renewable Electricity Supply for Maryland by 2035: Technical, Economic, and Fiscal Feasibility
- Maryland’s Electric Affordability Program: IEER Comments on PSC Public Conference 47
- Beyond a Band-Aid: A Discussion Paper on Protecting Workers and Communities in the Great Energy Transition
- This Changes Everything: free showing (Friday, February 26) of film by Naomi Klein & panel discussion to follow
- Net Metering and Distributed Energy Resources: Maryland’s Future (Slides)
- Role of Energy in Economic and Global Security (Voice of Russia interview)
- Slow or Fast, Nuclear Fission is Not the Answer (Yale Environment 360)
- Washington, Wall Street Mired On Energy (National Journal Expert Blog)
- Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Plants?: Congressional Testimony
- Watts Bar Unit 2: Does TVA Need the Power? Petition to NRC and Declaration (Feb. 4, 2010)
- Industry Setbacks Further Dim Nuclear Renaissance: PSR Press Conference
- Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Renewable Electricity System in the U.S.
- List of more interviews and articles from 2008 by Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free
- San Antonio’s Bright Energy Future
- Assessing Nuclear Plant Capital Costs for the Two Proposed NRG Reactors at the South Texas Project Site
- Manifesto for Global Democracy
- The G-8 and Global Apartheid
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm
- Oil and War or Wind?
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside / Nuclear Targeting (Issue #28)
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside / Nuclear Targeting (Vol. 12, No. 2)
- Money, Oil, and Security
- Occupation of Iraq
- Special Issue, Global Apartheid versus Global Democracy (Vol. 11, No. 3)
- Special Issue on Global Democracy (Issue #25)
- Wall Street Nixes Nukes?
- A Looming Monetary Collision: Oil, the dollar and the euro
- Saddam’s last laugh
- Climate Change and Transnational Corporations: Analysis and Trends
- Energy and Agriculture in the Third World
Electric Power Systems
- A report for Just Solutions on the role of long-duration energy storage in a decarbonized and resilient electricity sector.
- Gold on the Roof
- IEER Comments on the EPA Proposed Clean Power Plan
- Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free States (Vol. 16, No. 3)
- Renewable Minnesota: A technical and economic analysis of a 100% renewable-energy based electricity system for Minnesota
- An efficient and fully renewable energy system in the United States by 2050
- Washington, Wall Street Mired On Energy (National Journal Expert Blog)
- eUtah: A Renewable Energy Roadmap
- Role of Smart Grid and Energy Storage in a Renewable Electricity System
- Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Renewable Electricity System in the U.S.
- San Antonio’s Bright Energy Future
- Nuclear Power Costs, Alternatives, France, and Yucca Mountain (Vol. 15, No. 2)
- Nuclear Power – Costs, Alternatives, France, and Yucca Mountain (Issue #40)
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free – A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (Issue #39)
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm (Vol. 12, No. 4)
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm (Issue #30)
- The Great Northeast Blackout
- Securing the Energy Future of the United States
Energy Issues
- Report on water requirements for hydrogen production prepared for Just Solutions
- Energy Affordability in Maryland
- Why Small Modular Reactors Won’t Help Counter the Climate Crisis
- Exploring Farming and Solar Synergies: An Analysis Using Maryland Data
- Presentation regarding community solar on the Montgomery County, Maryland Agricultural Reserve
- Gold on the Roof
- Achieving Montgomery County’s Ambitious Ambitious Climate Goals: Sketch of a Vision
- Why is nuclear power a poor approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- An energy and transportation plan recommended by IEER to the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis
- An urgent energy and climate plan for Maryland
- Maryland’s Dysfunctional Residential Energy Market report
- Comments and recommendations on the PSC Electric Universal Service Program
- Offshore wind energy boat is sailing: Maryland is about to miss it
- Maryland Must Act Fast on Offshore Wind or Risk Being Left Behind in the Dust (May 31st, 2018)
- 100% Renewable Electricity Supply for Maryland by 2035: Technical, Economic, and Fiscal Feasibility
- Nuclear Energy Post Fukushima: BBC interviews Arjun Makhijani and Jonathan Cobb
- A Clean Energy Pathway for New Jersey (2017)
- 2011 Buildings Energy Data Book (U.S. Department of Energy)
- Will Maryland Pioneer Offshore Wind Farming in America? (The Real News Network, April 27, 2017)
- Heat pumps should be part of New York State’s energy future
- New York State should switch to electric heating systems to save money, environment
- NYSERDA’s Renewable Heating and Cooling Policy Framework (2017): IEER Comments
- Making Residential Heating and Cooling Climate-Friendly in New York State (revised July 2017)
- Maryland’s Electric Affordability Program: IEER Comments on PSC Public Conference 47
- Maryland’s Grid Transformation: Four points
- Prosperous, Renewable Maryland: Roadmap for a Healthy, Economical, and Equitable Energy Future
- Thorium (Th): BBC interviews scientists on thorium, including IEER’s Arjun Makhijani (2016)
- Beyond a Band-Aid: A Discussion Paper on Protecting Workers and Communities in the Great Energy Transition
- This Changes Everything: free showing (Friday, February 26) of film by Naomi Klein & panel discussion to follow
- Net Metering and Distributed Energy Resources: Maryland’s Future (Slides)
- Energy Justice in Maryland’s Residential and Renewable Energy Sectors
- Nuclear Power and Climate Change (a short paper)
- Testimony on Minnesota’s Nuclear Moratorium at the Senate Energy and Environment Committee
- Comments on the Exelon proposal to acquire Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Energy Efficient and Pollution-Free Space Heating and Cooling in Maryland
- IEER Comments on the EPA Proposed Clean Power Plan
- Comments on the Application to FERC regarding the Exelon Proposal to Acquire PHI
- A carbon-free and nuclear-free New York? (WCNY Radio)
- Traveling Wave Reactors: Sodium-cooled Gold at the End of a Nuclear Rainbow?
- Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy Economy Is Inevitable (truth-out.org)
- Light Water Designs of Small Modular Reactors: Facts and Analysis
- Making the Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy Economy Real (Clearing the FOG radio)
- Storing Renewable Energy (Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- Closing Pressurized Water Reactors (Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- Small modular reactors, same nuclear problems (archived webinar featuring Arjun Makhijani)
- Carbon Free and Nuclear Free (Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- Building small modular reactors senseless (Knoxville News Sentinel)
- 70 years after first atomic reaction, anti-nuclear movement presses on (Midwest Energy News)
- Comments to the MN Public Utility Commission on Xcel Energy’s Resource Plan
- Role of Energy in Economic and Global Security (Voice of Russia interview)
- Kindle Project Blog features IEER and Arjun Makhijani, for IEER’s 25th Anniversary in 2012
- Slow or Fast, Nuclear Fission is Not the Answer (Yale Environment 360)
- Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free States (Vol. 16, No. 3)
- Fukushima Disaster: Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Opponents of new license for nuclear plant face long odds (St. Louis Beacon)
- Arjun Makhijani talks to Helen Caldicott on the downsides of thorium reactors
- May 5, a historic date in nuclear weapons and nuclear power: Kyodo News op-ed
- Nearly $1 Billion Vogtle Nuclear Reactor Cost Overrun
- Renewable Minnesota: A technical and economic analysis of a 100% renewable-energy based electricity system for Minnesota
- Solar Power for Minnesota
- Reprocessing, Mythology versus Reality (Vol. 16, No. 2)
- Is nuclear energy different than other energy sources? (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- An efficient and fully renewable energy system in the United States by 2050
- Washington, Wall Street Mired On Energy (National Journal Expert Blog)
- Support for legal challenges to nuclear reactor licensing
- The Fukushima tragedy demonstrates that nuclear energy doesn’t make sense (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- NRC’s Fukushima Task Force Review: IEER’s Preliminary Review
- Hammer Forum: The Death of the Nuclear Renaissance (Video)
- Suspend All Nuclear Reactor Licensing; Conduct “Credible” TMI-Style Review
- Splashlife: Counterpoint: It’s Time to Close the Chapter on U.S. Nuclear Power
- Time to close the chapter on U.S. nuclear power
- EnergyNow TV: Carbon and Nuclear Free in 40 Years? Interview with Arjun Makhijani (Video)
- How does Japan’s Crisis Affect America’s Nuclear Industry? (National Journal Expert Blogs)
- Nuclear And Coal Have No Place In A “Clean” Energy Standard
- Why Minnesota should maintain its moratorium on new nuclear reactors: Testimony before legislators
- KTNF AM 950: The Minnesota nuclear moratorium
- Status of proposed nuclear power projects – January 2011
- eUtah: A Renewable Energy Roadmap
- The Diane Rehm Show: Nuclear Power Plant Future
- Small Modular Reactors: Fact Sheet
- A US nuclear future?: Commentary in Nature.
- Comments for the Transportation & Storage Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission
- What will it take to phase out fossil fuels and nuclear energy? (KBOO Radio)
- Managing Spent Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste: Interim and Long-Term Considerations
- Non-Proliferation Treaty RevCon: NPT TV with Arjun Makhijani
- Role of Smart Grid and Energy Storage in a Renewable Electricity System
- Matching Utility Loads with Solar and Wind Power in North Carolina
- Watts Bar Unit 2: Does TVA Need the Power? Petition to NRC and Declaration (Feb. 4, 2010)
- San Antonio Clean Tech Forum Nuclear Panel
- Progressive radio: Arjun Makhijani on a carbon-free nuclear-free future
- Thorium Fuel – No Panacea for Nuclear Power
- Earthbeat radio: Daphne Wysham interviews Arjun Makhijani
- EarthSky: Arjun Makhijani believes nuclear power too costly, risky
- A New Energy Model for Spain
- Nuclear Costs and Alternatives
- Living on Earth (radio): Three Mile Island, 30 Years Ago
- Minnesota Legislature: Discussion of nuclear power
- Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Renewable Electricity System in the U.S.
- Locus Focus (radio): Arjun Makhijani on the Nuclear Power Fiasco
- Inside Track: Arjun discusses proliferation of nuclear weapons
- List of more interviews and articles from 2008 by Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free
- Earthbeat radio: Carbon Taxes and Nuclear Debate
- Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore Debate the Future of Nuclear Energy
- San Antonio’s Bright Energy Future
- Statement of Hugh B. Haskell Regarding the Approval of New Nuclear and Coal-Fired Power Plants in NC
- KOHO Radio (WA): Debate between Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore on the future of nuclear energy
- KUOW Radio (WA): Ross Reynolds interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Assessing Nuclear Plant Capital Costs for the Two Proposed NRG Reactors at the South Texas Project Site
- Nuclear Is Not the Right Alternative Energy Source
- Deseret News (Utah): Nuclear power, not renewable energy, is risky course for U.S., by Arjun Makhijani
- Nuclear Power Costs, Alternatives, France, and Yucca Mountain (Vol. 15, No. 2)
- Nuclear Power – Costs, Alternatives, France, and Yucca Mountain (Issue #40)
- Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-free, Nuclear-free energy
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free, A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (Vol. 15, No. 1)
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free – A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (Issue #39)
- Testimony of Arjun Makhijani and Sara Barczak on Behalf of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
- Video: Nuclear Power and Global Warming (David Kraft interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Issue #36)
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Vol. 14, No. 2)
- Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change
- An Update on Nuclear Power – Is It Safe? (Video of Arjun Makhijani, requires RealPlayer)
- Our Electric Future: A Non-Nuclear Low Carb Diet?
- International experience with reprocessing and related technologies
- Comments on the Draft EIS for the Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to Production of Radioisotope Power Systems
- Atomic Myths, Radioactive Realities: Why Nuclear Power Is a Poor Way to Meet Energy Needs
- BEIR VII Report Raises Major Issues for Radiation Protection
- Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Vol. 13, No. 2)
- Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Issue #32)
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm (Vol. 12, No. 4)
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm (Issue #30)
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm
- Oil and War or Wind?
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 3 of 3)
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 2 of 3)
- Is Oil Running Out? (Part 1 of 3)
- Money, Oil, and Security
- Occupation of Iraq
- The Great Northeast Blackout
- Drought threatens nukes
- Plutonium Dreams: Making Plutonium a Commercial Fuel
- The War IS About Oil, Here’s What We Should Do
- Oil, GM, Chevron/Texaco and energy policy
- Securing the Energy Future of the United States (Vol. 10, No. 2)
- Alternative Energy Plan for the United States (Issue #20)
- Securing the Energy Future of the United States
- Two Case Studies of Environmental-Security Connections
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Vol. 9, No. 4)
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- The Cheney Energy Plan: Technically Unsound and Unsustainable
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Issue #18)
- Saddam’s last laugh
- La fin de l’économie du plutonium
- Wind Power versus Plutonium (Issue #11)
- Japan’s Plutonium Plans vis-a-vis the Tokai Incident
- Wind Power Versus Plutonium
- Nuclear Power, No Solution to Global Climate Change (Vol. 6, No. 3)
- Nuclear Power No Solution to Global Climate Change (Issue #5)
- The International Civilian Reprocessing Business (Issue #2)
- Heading Off the Plutonium Peril
- Plutonium as an Energy Source (Issue #1)
- Draft Power in South Asian Food Grain Production: Analysis of the Problem and Suggestions for Policy
- Energy and Agriculture in the Third World
- A Time to Choose: America’s Energy Future
Fissile and Fissionable Materials
- Nuclear Security Summit 2016: KPFA interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Slow or Fast, Nuclear Fission is Not the Answer (Yale Environment 360)
- DOE Complex Transformation / French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Vol. 15, No. 3)
- DOE Complex Transformation, French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Issue #41)
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Issue #36)
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Vol. 14, No. 2)
- Unaccounted-for plutonium at Los Alamos (Arjun Makhijani interview with Progressive Radio)
- Bad to the Bone, Drinking Water Standards for Plutonium (Vol. 13, No. 3)
- Bad to the Bone: Plutonium Drinking Water Standards in the U.S. (Issue #33)
- Comments on the Draft EIS for the Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to Production of Radioisotope Power Systems
- Bad to the Bone
- Physical, Nuclear, and Chemical Properties of Plutonium
- Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Vol. 13, No. 2)
- Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Issue #32)
- Uranium Enrichment / Gorbachev and the U.S. People (Vol. 13, No. 1)
- Uranium Enrichment / Gorbachev and the U.S. People (Issue #31)
- Comments on Draft Supplemental Site-Wide Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic EIS, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Securing the Energy Future of the United States (Vol. 10, No. 2)
- Alternative Energy Plan for the United States (Issue #20)
- Poison in the Vadose Zone (INEEL) (Vol. 10, No. 1)
- Poison in the Vadose Zone (Issue #19)
- Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Forgotten Exposures / Nuclear Plant Risk Studies (Vol. 9, No. 1)
- Forgotten Exposures; Nuclear Plant Risk (Issue #15)
- Ionizing Radiation / Uranium (Vol. 8, No. 4)
- Waste Transmutation / Energy for Peace; Nuclear Power Deception (Vol. 8, No. 3)
- Energy for Peace (Issue #13)
- Wind Versus Plutonium / Fuel Cells (Vol. 8, No. 1)
- DOE Plutonium Fuel Contract Award Inappropriate and Premature
- Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Vol. 7, No. 2)
- Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Issue #8)
- Sound Radioactive Waste Management Policy (Vol. 6, No. 1)
- The International Civilian Reprocessing Business (Issue #2)
- Radioactivity in the Fernald Neighborhood (Vol. 5, No. 3)
- Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship (Vol. 5, No. 2)
- Fissile Materials Health & Environmental Dangers
- Fissile Material Basics
- Special Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration Issue (Vol. 4, No. 3)
- Nuclear Testing and Weapons Design (Vol. 4, No. 2)
- Fissile Materials in a Glass, Darkly
- Disposing of Fissile Materials (Vol. 4, No. 1)
- Extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (Vol. 3, No. 3)
- Plutonium as a Liability / Dangers of Plutonium (Vol. 3, No. 2)
- How Many Nuclear Weapons is Enough? (Vol. 2, No. 3)
- Plutonium — Deadly Waste of the Nuclear Age (Vol. 2, No. 1)
- Report on Chelyabinsk (Vol. 1, No. 3)
- Plutonium: Deadly Gold of the Nuclear Age
- The Democratization of Science / Plutonium, A Resource or a Waste? (Vol. 1, No. 1)
Fukushima
- Japanese translation of the Views of the Expert Panel to the Pacific Islands Forum.
- IAEA abandons interests of Pacific region countries as Japan prepares to dump radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean in violation of key IAEA requirements
- Deficiencies in the IAEA review of the TEPCO plan to dump Fukushima radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean
- Expert Panel views on Fukushima radioactive water dumping proposal
- Experts recommend indefinite delay of Japan’s plan to dump over a million tons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean
- Nuclear Energy Post Fukushima: BBC interviews Arjun Makhijani and Jonathan Cobb
- Radiation Spikes at Fukushima: Living on Earth interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Radioactive Waste Still Leaking Five Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Fukushima fallout: Should the West Coast be concerned? (Los Angeles KABC)
- Removing fuel rods from Fukushima Unit 4 (Up Front interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Radioactive Rainwater Overwhelms Fukushima Nuclear Plant (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Building a Frozen Wall at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant (The Takeaway Radio)
- Record Radiation Levels At Fukushima Nuclear Plant (The Real News Network TRNN)
- What if the Fukushima Ice Wall Defrosts? (PBS NewsHour with Arjun Makhijani)
- A look at nuclear power: do risks outweigh benefits? (CCTV America)
- Fukushima toxic water leak may get upgraded to ‘serious incident’ (KPCC Radio Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Calls for seafood tests due to radiation leak in Japan (MSN News)
- BBC World News: Radioactive water leaks at stricken Fukushima Daiichi reactors
- Fukushima Reinforces Worst Fears for Japanese Who Are Anti-Nuclear Power (PBS NewsHour)
- Six Telling Figures from Japan’s Leaking Fukushima Nuclear Plant (PBS NewsHour)
- Radioactive Water from Fukushima in the Pacific (Living on Earth Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Groups: Japanese Report on Fukushima Reactor Disaster is “Real Wake Up” Call For Sleeping U.S. Regulators
- Fukushima Disaster: Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani
- May 5, a historic date in nuclear weapons and nuclear power: Kyodo News op-ed
- NY Times: Confidence Slips Away as Japan Battles Nuclear Peril
- Minnesota Public Radio: Nuclear power safety one year after Fukushima disaster
- Fukushima Anniversary: KPFA’s Philip Maldari interviews Arjun Makhijani and Kevin Kamps
- Sûreté nucléaire en France post-Fukushima (Post-Fukushima Nuclear Safety in France)
- Is nuclear energy different than other energy sources? (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- CBC News: Nuclear Tension, Fukushima, TV interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Support for legal challenges to nuclear reactor licensing
- Fukushima and Food Contamination: Between the Lines’ Scott Harris interviews Arjun Makhijani
- The Fukushima tragedy demonstrates that nuclear energy doesn’t make sense (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- NRC’s Fukushima Task Force Review: IEER’s Preliminary Review
- Hammer Forum: The Death of the Nuclear Renaissance (Video)
- Internal Dose Estimates Needed in Area of Fukushima Daiichi Plant (in Japanese and English)
- Fukushima Meltdowns: Between the Lines’ Scott Harris interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Suspend All Nuclear Reactor Licensing; Conduct “Credible” TMI-Style Review
- More Stringent, Coordinated Fukushima Fallout Monitoring Needed to Determine Radioactive Iodine Risk
- Asia-Pacific Journal: What Caused the High Chlorine-38 Radioactivity in the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor #1
- Splashlife: Counterpoint: It’s Time to Close the Chapter on U.S. Nuclear Power
- Message from Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (Mark Selden, editor)
- Issues of Water and Light in the Turbine Buildings at Fukushima Daiichi
- Radioactive Iodine Releases from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Reactors May Exceed Those of Three Mile Island by Over 100,000 Times
- Spent nuclear fuel pools vulnerable to terrorist attacks (Kyodo News)
- How does Japan’s Crisis Affect America’s Nuclear Industry? (National Journal Expert Blogs)
- Post-Tsunami Situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan
- Table of Nuclear Reactor Accidents
Healthy from the start
In Chinese - 在中國
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free – A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (Issue #39)
- Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Issue #29)
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside / Nuclear Targeting (Issue #28)
- Special Issue on Global Democracy (Issue #25)
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law? (Issue #22)
- Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Issue #21)
- Alternative Energy Plan for the United States (Issue #20)
- Poison in the Vadose Zone (Issue #19)
- A Call for Gatherings on October 2, Gandhi’s Birthday
- Reflections on September 11, 2001
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Issue #18)
- Law and the Nuclear Establishment / NATO / COGEMA (Issue #17)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Forgotten Exposures; Nuclear Plant Risk (Issue #15)
- Worker Doses, Global Truth Commission (Issue #14)
- Energy for Peace (Issue #13)
- Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Issue #12)
- Wind Power versus Plutonium (Issue #11)
- Radioactive Waste in Russia and France / NATO Bombing (Issue #10)
- IEER’s Plan for Management of Highly Radioactive Waste (Issue #9)
- Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Issue #8)
- Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (Double Issue #6 and #7)
- Nuclear Power No Solution to Global Climate Change (Issue #5)
- Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation (Issue #4)
- The Use of Weapons Plutonium as Reactor Fuel (Issue #3)
- The International Civilian Reprocessing Business (Issue #2)
- Plutonium as an Energy Source (Issue #1)
- The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen
In French - En Français
- DOE Complex Transformation, French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Issue #41)
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free – A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (Issue #39)
- Low-Carbon Diet without Nukes in France
- Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Issue #29)
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside / Nuclear Targeting (Issue #28)
- Special Issue on Global Democracy (Issue #25)
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law? (Issue #22)
- Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Issue #21)
- Alternative Energy Plan for the United States (Issue #20)
- Poison in the Vadose Zone (Issue #19)
- A Call for Gatherings on October 2, Gandhi’s Birthday
- Reflections on September 11, 2001
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Issue #18)
- Vice-President Cheney Wrong About French Nuclear Repository Program
- Law and the Nuclear Establishment / NATO / COGEMA (Issue #17)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Forgotten Exposures; Nuclear Plant Risk (Issue #15)
- La fin de l’économie du plutonium
- Worker Doses, Global Truth Commission (Issue #14)
- Energy for Peace (Issue #13)
- Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Issue #12)
- Wind Power versus Plutonium (Issue #11)
- Radioactive Waste in Russia and France / NATO Bombing (Issue #10)
- IEER’s Plan for Management of Highly Radioactive Waste (Issue #9)
- Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Issue #8)
- Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (Double Issue #6 and #7)
- Nuclear Power No Solution to Global Climate Change (Issue #5)
- Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation (Issue #4)
- The Use of Weapons Plutonium as Reactor Fuel (Issue #3)
- The International Civilian Reprocessing Business (Issue #2)
- Plutonium as an Energy Source (Issue #1)
- The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen
In Japanese - 日本語で
- Japanese translation of the Views of the Expert Panel to the Pacific Islands Forum.
- A Call for Gatherings on October 2, Gandhi’s Birthday
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Energy for Peace (Issue #13)
- Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Issue #12)
- Wind Power versus Plutonium (Issue #11)
- IEER’s Plan for Management of Highly Radioactive Waste (Issue #9)
- Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (Double Issue #6 and #7)
In Korean - 한국
In Russian - На русском языке
- DOE Complex Transformation, French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Issue #41)
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free – A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (Issue #39)
- Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Issue #29)
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside / Nuclear Targeting (Issue #28)
- Special Issue on Global Democracy (Issue #25)
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law? (Issue #22)
- Russian and US Experts Respond to Summit Arms Reduction Treaty
- Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Issue #21)
- Alternative Energy Plan for the United States (Issue #20)
- A Bad Approach To Nuclear Waste
- De-alerting Russian and US nuclear weapons: A path to reducing nuclear dangers
- Poison in the Vadose Zone (Issue #19)
- A Call for Gatherings on October 2, Gandhi’s Birthday
- Reflections on September 11, 2001
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Issue #18)
- Law and the Nuclear Establishment / NATO / COGEMA (Issue #17)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Forgotten Exposures; Nuclear Plant Risk (Issue #15)
- Worker Doses, Global Truth Commission (Issue #14)
- Letter to U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Plutonium Disposition
- Energy for Peace (Issue #13)
- Стоп МОX! ЭЛЕКТРОННЫЙ БЮЛЛЕТЕНЬ
- Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Issue #12)
- Wind Power versus Plutonium (Issue #11)
- Radioactive Waste in Russia and France / NATO Bombing (Issue #10)
- IEER’s Plan for Management of Highly Radioactive Waste (Issue #9)
- Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Issue #8)
- Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (Double Issue #6 and #7)
- Nuclear Power No Solution to Global Climate Change (Issue #5)
- Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation (Issue #4)
- The Use of Weapons Plutonium as Reactor Fuel (Issue #3)
- The International Civilian Reprocessing Business (Issue #2)
- Plutonium as an Energy Source (Issue #1)
In Serbian - У српском
In Spanish - En español
Letters
- Follow-up Memo to NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane
- Letter from Congressman Ed Markey to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, asking about the agency’s use of Reference Man
- Radioactive Rivers and Rain / Retiring Reference Man (Vol. 16, No. 1)
- Healthy from the Start / Tritium (Vol. 14, No. 4)
- Open Letter to President Bush on Protecting the Most Vulnerable
- Letter to NAS committee assessing the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
- Letter from IEER to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board on the suitability of proposed Yucca Mountain repository
- The NRC should hold a formal proceeding for a MOX fuel fabrication facility
- Statement by World Nongovernmental Organizations Opposing the Use of Plutonium (MOX) Fuel
- Letter to U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Plutonium Disposition
- Letter to University of California Regents on Fusion Research
Maryland
- The Trouble with STRIDE: Meeting climate goals and addressing natural gas system stranded costs
- Energy Affordability in Maryland
- Exploring Farming and Solar Synergies: An Analysis Using Maryland Data
- 100% Renewable Electricity Supply for Maryland by 2035: Technical, Economic, and Fiscal Feasibility
- Will Maryland Pioneer Offshore Wind Farming in America? (The Real News Network, April 27, 2017)
- Maryland’s Electric Affordability Program: IEER Comments on PSC Public Conference 47
- Maryland’s Grid Transformation: Four points
- Prosperous, Renewable Maryland: Roadmap for a Healthy, Economical, and Equitable Energy Future
- Beyond a Band-Aid: A Discussion Paper on Protecting Workers and Communities in the Great Energy Transition
- Net Metering and Distributed Energy Resources: Maryland’s Future (Slides)
- Energy Justice in Maryland’s Residential and Renewable Energy Sectors
- Comments on the Exelon proposal to acquire Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Energy Efficient and Pollution-Free Space Heating and Cooling in Maryland
Minnesota
New Jersey
New York
- Heat pumps should be part of New York State’s energy future
- New York State should switch to electric heating systems to save money, environment
- NYSERDA’s Renewable Heating and Cooling Policy Framework (2017): IEER Comments
- Making Residential Heating and Cooling Climate-Friendly in New York State (revised July 2017)
Nuclear Power
- Deficiencies in the IAEA review of the TEPCO plan to dump Fukushima radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean
- Small modular reactors will not save the day
- Experts recommend indefinite delay of Japan’s plan to dump over a million tons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean
- Why Small Modular Reactors Won’t Help Counter the Climate Crisis
- Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons: The Connections
- Why is nuclear power a poor approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
- Nuclear Energy Post Fukushima: BBC interviews Arjun Makhijani and Jonathan Cobb
- Radiation Spikes at Fukushima: Living on Earth interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Maryland’s Grid Transformation: Four points
- Pilgrim’s Progress: Inside the American Nuclear-Waste Crisis, The New Yorker (2016)
- Thorium (Th): BBC interviews scientists on thorium, including IEER’s Arjun Makhijani (2016)
- California Nukes To Shut Down; New York Nukes Troubled: Living on Earth interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Nuclear Security Summit 2016: KPFA interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Radioactive Waste Still Leaking Five Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- More Nuclear Power Plants Shutting Down (Living on Earth interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Nuclear Power and Climate Change (a short paper)
- NRC Briefing on Greater-Than-Class C Radioactive Waste
- Testimony on Minnesota’s Nuclear Moratorium at the Senate Energy and Environment Committee
- Declaration in support to reopen the record of NRC license and re-licence proceedings
- Comments on the EPA Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations
- Fukushima fallout: Should the West Coast be concerned? (Los Angeles KABC)
- Removing fuel rods from Fukushima Unit 4 (Up Front interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Radioactive Rainwater Overwhelms Fukushima Nuclear Plant (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Traveling Wave Reactors: Sodium-cooled Gold at the End of a Nuclear Rainbow?
- A look at nuclear power: do risks outweigh benefits? (CCTV America)
- Fukushima toxic water leak may get upgraded to ‘serious incident’ (KPCC Radio Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- BBC World News: Radioactive water leaks at stricken Fukushima Daiichi reactors
- Fukushima Reinforces Worst Fears for Japanese Who Are Anti-Nuclear Power (PBS NewsHour)
- Light Water Designs of Small Modular Reactors: Facts and Analysis
- Six Telling Figures from Japan’s Leaking Fukushima Nuclear Plant (PBS NewsHour)
- Closing Pressurized Water Reactors (Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- Human Health and Radiation (Vol. 17, No. 1)
- On life near two nuclear power plants in Illinois: an interview with Cindy and Joe Sauer
- Small modular reactors, same nuclear problems (archived webinar featuring Arjun Makhijani)
- Building small modular reactors senseless (Knoxville News Sentinel)
- NRC rushing through waste confidence process (press release and official comments)
- 70 years after first atomic reaction, anti-nuclear movement presses on (Midwest Energy News)
- Follow-up Memo to NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane
- Slow or Fast, Nuclear Fission is Not the Answer (Yale Environment 360)
- Groups: Japanese Report on Fukushima Reactor Disaster is “Real Wake Up” Call For Sleeping U.S. Regulators
- Fukushima Disaster: Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Opponents of new license for nuclear plant face long odds (St. Louis Beacon)
- IEER on “Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities, Phase I”
- Science Friday: Is Thorium a Magic Bullet for Our Energy Problems?
- Arjun Makhijani talks to Helen Caldicott on the downsides of thorium reactors
- May 5, a historic date in nuclear weapons and nuclear power: Kyodo News op-ed
- Nearly $1 Billion Vogtle Nuclear Reactor Cost Overrun
- Legal Challenge to 20 Year License Extension Proposal for Callaway Nuclear Reactor
- NRC Denies Motion; Groups Sue to Block Vogtle Units 3 & 4
- NY Times: Confidence Slips Away as Japan Battles Nuclear Peril
- Minnesota Public Radio: Nuclear power safety one year after Fukushima disaster
- Renewable Minnesota: A technical and economic analysis of a 100% renewable-energy based electricity system for Minnesota
- Fukushima Anniversary: KPFA’s Philip Maldari interviews Arjun Makhijani and Kevin Kamps
- Sûreté nucléaire en France post-Fukushima (Post-Fukushima Nuclear Safety in France)
- Long-Term Waste Confidence and Temporary Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
- No More Solyndras: Groups Call on DOE to Release Vogtle Delay & Cost Overrun Information
- Reprocessing, Mythology versus Reality (Vol. 16, No. 2)
- Nuclear Power, Tritium, and the Threat to Drinking Water – Minnesota Press Conference
- IEER reacts to Blue Ribbon Commission’s final Report to the Secretary of Energy
- Is nuclear energy different than other energy sources? (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- Blue Ribbon Commission Draft Report: Comments from IEER
- New LLRW EIS needed for NRC’s Volume Reduction and Blending Policy: IEER Comments
- CBC News: Nuclear Tension, Fukushima, TV interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Support for legal challenges to nuclear reactor licensing
- Fukushima and Food Contamination: Between the Lines’ Scott Harris interviews Arjun Makhijani
- The Fukushima tragedy demonstrates that nuclear energy doesn’t make sense (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists)
- NRC’s Fukushima Task Force Review: IEER’s Preliminary Review
- Reprocessing: IEER’s Comments on NRC’s “Draft Regulatory Basis for a Potential Rulemaking…”
- Reactor Proponents Are Batting 0-6 in State Legislatures in 2011 (PR Newswire)
- BRC Transportation and Storage Subcommittee’s Draft Report: IEER’s Comments
- Hammer Forum: The Death of the Nuclear Renaissance (Video)
- Internal Dose Estimates Needed in Area of Fukushima Daiichi Plant (in Japanese and English)
- Fukushima Meltdowns: Between the Lines’ Scott Harris interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Suspend All Nuclear Reactor Licensing; Conduct “Credible” TMI-Style Review
- More Stringent, Coordinated Fukushima Fallout Monitoring Needed to Determine Radioactive Iodine Risk
- Asia-Pacific Journal: What Caused the High Chlorine-38 Radioactivity in the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor #1
- Splashlife: Counterpoint: It’s Time to Close the Chapter on U.S. Nuclear Power
- Message from Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (Mark Selden, editor)
- Issues of Water and Light in the Turbine Buildings at Fukushima Daiichi
- Time to close the chapter on U.S. nuclear power
- EnergyNow TV: Carbon and Nuclear Free in 40 Years? Interview with Arjun Makhijani (Video)
- How does Japan’s Crisis Affect America’s Nuclear Industry? (National Journal Expert Blogs)
- Nuclear And Coal Have No Place In A “Clean” Energy Standard
- Why Minnesota should maintain its moratorium on new nuclear reactors: Testimony before legislators
- KTNF AM 950: The Minnesota nuclear moratorium
- Status of proposed nuclear power projects – January 2011
- eUtah: A Renewable Energy Roadmap
- The Diane Rehm Show: Nuclear Power Plant Future
- Small Modular Reactors: Fact Sheet
- A US nuclear future?: Commentary in Nature.
- Comments for the Transportation & Storage Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission
- What will it take to phase out fossil fuels and nuclear energy? (KBOO Radio)
- Civil Liability for Nuclear Claims Bill, 2010: Is Life Cheap in India?
- Managing Spent Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste: Interim and Long-Term Considerations
- Non-Proliferation Treaty RevCon: NPT TV with Arjun Makhijani
- Perspectives on the NAS Studying Cancer Risk in Populations Living near Nuclear Power Facilities
- Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Plants?: Congressional Testimony
- Nuclear Waste Contract FOIA Results
- Testimony in Favor of Minnesota’s Nuclear Moratorium
- Watts Bar Unit 2: Does TVA Need the Power? Petition to NRC and Declaration (Feb. 4, 2010)
- Industry Setbacks Further Dim Nuclear Renaissance: PSR Press Conference
- San Antonio Clean Tech Forum Nuclear Panel
- Radioactive Rivers and Rain / Retiring Reference Man (Vol. 16, No. 1)
- Thorium Fuel – No Panacea for Nuclear Power
- Table of Nuclear Reactor Accidents
- EarthSky: Arjun Makhijani believes nuclear power too costly, risky
- A New Energy Model for Spain
- Nuclear Costs and Alternatives
- The Use of Reference Man in Radiation Protection Standards and Guidance with Recommendations for Change
- Should Yucca Mountain Remain An Option? (National Journal Expert Blogs)
- Living on Earth (radio): Three Mile Island, 30 Years Ago
- Minnesota Legislature: Discussion of nuclear power
- Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Renewable Electricity System in the U.S.
- Locus Focus (radio): Arjun Makhijani on the Nuclear Power Fiasco
- Comments on the NRC’s Proposed Waste Confidence Rule Update
- List of more interviews and articles from 2008 by Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free
- Earthbeat radio: Carbon Taxes and Nuclear Debate
- Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore Debate the Future of Nuclear Energy
- San Antonio’s Bright Energy Future
- Statement of Hugh B. Haskell Regarding the Approval of New Nuclear and Coal-Fired Power Plants in NC
- KOHO Radio (WA): Debate between Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore on the future of nuclear energy
- KUOW Radio (WA): Ross Reynolds interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Assessing Nuclear Plant Capital Costs for the Two Proposed NRG Reactors at the South Texas Project Site
- Nuclear Is Not the Right Alternative Energy Source
- Deseret News (Utah): Nuclear power, not renewable energy, is risky course for U.S., by Arjun Makhijani
- Nuclear Power – Costs, Alternatives, France, and Yucca Mountain (Issue #40)
- U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Arjun interview on PBS NewsHour
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free, A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (Vol. 15, No. 1)
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free – A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (Issue #39)
- Testimony of Arjun Makhijani and Sara Barczak on Behalf of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
- Video: Nuclear Power and Global Warming (David Kraft interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Issue #36)
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Vol. 14, No. 2)
- Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change
- Low-Carbon Diet without Nukes in France
- Los Alamos Cleanup / Chernobyl (Issue #35)
- An Update on Nuclear Power – Is It Safe? (Video of Arjun Makhijani, requires RealPlayer)
- Los Alamos Cleanup / Chernobyl (Vol. 14, No. 1)
- IEER Memorandum on Tritium
- Statement on Tritium
- International experience with reprocessing and related technologies
- A Nuclear Incident “Worse Than Three Mile Island” (Living on Earth Radio)
- The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal and Iran (Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Comments on the Draft EIS for the Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to Production of Radioisotope Power Systems
- Atomic Myths, Radioactive Realities: Why Nuclear Power Is a Poor Way to Meet Energy Needs
- Physical, Nuclear, and Chemical Properties of Plutonium
- BEIR VII Report Raises Major Issues for Radiation Protection
- NPR’s Talk of the Nation “Taking a Second Look at Nuclear Power” (Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Vol. 13, No. 2)
- Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Issue #32)
- Uranium Enrichment / Gorbachev and the U.S. People (Vol. 13, No. 1)
- Uranium Enrichment / Gorbachev and the U.S. People (Issue #31)
- What the DOE Knows it Doesn’t Know about Grout
- Uranium Enrichment
- Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Vol. 12, No. 3)
- Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Issue #29)
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside / Nuclear Targeting (Issue #28)
- Comments on Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS for the Proposed LES Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Facility
- Drought threatens nukes
- Wall Street Nixes Nukes?
- Testimony of Arjun Makhijani on Secure Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuel before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations
- Compliance Assessment of North Korean and U.S. Obligations Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and 1994 Agreed Framework
- Health Survey at an Indian Nuclear Power Plant / Peace Plan for South Asia (Vol. 11, No. 1)
- Health Survey at an Indian Nuclear Power Plant / Peace Plan for South Asia (Issue #23)
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law?
- Securing the Energy Future of the United States (Vol. 10, No. 2)
- Alternative Energy Plan for the United States (Issue #20)
- If not Yucca Mountain, then what?
- Securing the Energy Future of the United States
- Japanese Government Should Halt Construction of Plutonium Extraction and Fuel Fabrication Plant
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Vol. 9, No. 4)
- The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Issue #18)
- Revival of Pyroprocessing Technology for Nuclear Fuel in Bush Administration Energy Plan Poses Serious Proliferation Dangers
- Scrap plans for fast breeder reactor
- Arjun Makhijani The Nuke Slayer (Discover Magazine)
- The NRC should hold a formal proceeding for a MOX fuel fabrication facility
- Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Plutonium End Game
- Forgotten Exposures / Nuclear Plant Risk Studies (Vol. 9, No. 1)
- Forgotten Exposures; Nuclear Plant Risk (Issue #15)
- Statement by World Nongovernmental Organizations Opposing the Use of Plutonium (MOX) Fuel
- Waste Transmutation / Energy for Peace; Nuclear Power Deception (Vol. 8, No. 3)
- The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble
- Energy for Peace (Issue #13)
- Стоп МОX! ЭЛЕКТРОННЫЙ БЮЛЛЕТЕНЬ
- Comments on the Draft Standard Review Plan for the Review of an Application for a Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility
- Wind Power versus Plutonium (Issue #11)
- Statement on Tritium before the House Committee on Intergovernmental Coordination, State of Georgia
- Japan’s Plutonium Plans vis-a-vis the Tokai Incident
- Comments on the Sellafield MOX Plant Consultation
- The Nuclear Power Deception
- DOE Plutonium Fuel Contract Award Inappropriate and Premature
- Reprocessing and Spent Nuclear Fuel Management at the Savannah River Site
- Wind Power Versus Plutonium
- Nuclear Power, No Solution to Global Climate Change (Vol. 6, No. 3)
- Nuclear Power No Solution to Global Climate Change (Issue #5)
- The Use of Weapons Plutonium as Reactor Fuel (Issue #3)
- Sound Radioactive Waste Management Policy (Vol. 6, No. 1)
- Technical Aspects of the Use of Weapons Plutonium as a Reactor Fuel (Vol. 5, No. 4)
- The International Civilian Reprocessing Business (Issue #2)
- Heading Off the Plutonium Peril
- Types of Nuclear Reactors
- Risky Relapse into Reprocessing
- What ‘Non-Nuclear’ Japan Is Not Telling the World: and How Tokyo Keeps Its Options Open
- Open the files, please: Japanese government rhetoric about its “nuclear allergy” is not entirely persuasive; it’s time to clear the air
- How Many Nuclear Weapons is Enough? (Vol. 2, No. 3)
Nuclear testing
- Impacts of the CASTLE nuclear weapons test series carried out by the United States in the Marshall Islands, in 1954
- Impacts of the 1954 CASTLE U.S. nuclear weapons test series
- Articles on the health and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons testing at the major test sites
- The Trinity Test (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination: (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- Assessing the Harm from Nuclear Weapons Testing and Production (Vienna Conference 2014. Slide presentation)
- Comments for the Transportation & Storage Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission
- BOOK REVIEW: Consequential Damages of Nuclear War; The Rongelap Report
- DOE Complex Transformation / French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Vol. 15, No. 3)
- DOE Complex Transformation, French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Issue #41)
- Disposal of Radioactive Waste in France / A Readiness to Harm (Vol. 13, No. 4)
- Disposal of Radioactive Waste in France / A Readiness to Harm (Issue #34)
- Feasibility Study of Nuclear Weapons Test Fallout and Related Documents
- Advocates welcome NAS study on nuclear testing health effects
- Letter to NAS committee assessing the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
- NATO and Nuclear Disarmament
- The “Usable” Nuke Strikes Back / Back to the Bad Old Days (Vol. 11, No. 4)
- Anniversary of the First Nuclear Test: Investigate the Fallout and Downwinders
- Nuclear Targeting: The First 60 Years
- Radioactive Milk in America
- Fact Sheet on Fallout Report and Related Maps
- Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Vol. 8, No. 2)
- Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Issue #12)
- Wind Versus Plutonium / Fuel Cells (Vol. 8, No. 1)
- On 50th anniversary of Soviet atomic test, time to reassess nuclear weapons
- Press Release: Letter to Univ. of CA Regents on Fusion Research and Test Ban Treaty
- Letter to University of California Regents on Fusion Research
- Worker Radiation Dose Records Deeply Flawed / Let Them Drink Milk (Iodine-131) (Vol. 6, No. 2)
- India’s Options
- Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship (Vol. 5, No. 2)
- The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen
- Transuranics in Bone of Deceased Former Residents of Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands
- Special Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration Issue (Vol. 4, No. 3)
- Nuclear Testing and Weapons Design (Vol. 4, No. 2)
- “Always” the target?: While U.S. bomb scientists were racing against Germany, military planners were looking toward the Pacific
- Disposing of Fissile Materials (Vol. 4, No. 1)
- Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing in the Marshall Islands (Rongelap Resettlement Project)
- Radioactive Heaven and Earth
Nuclear Waste Repositories
- Pilgrim’s Progress: Inside the American Nuclear-Waste Crisis, The New Yorker (2016)
- Comments on the “Design of a Consent-Based Siting Process for Nuclear Waste and Disposal Storage Facilities”
- NRC Briefing on Greater-Than-Class C Radioactive Waste
- Spent Fuel and Reprocessing Myths and Realities
- Nuclear Waste Management: Alan Stahler Interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Groups Rebut the Waste Storage Claims of Nuclear Industry
- NRC rushing through waste confidence process (press release and official comments)
- Blue Ribbon Commission Draft Report: Comments from IEER
- BRC Transportation and Storage Subcommittee’s Draft Report: IEER’s Comments
- DOE’s Greater-Than-Class C Waste Draft EIS: Comments by the Yakama Nation ERWM Program and IEER
- The French High-Level Waste Repository Program: IEER’s Bure report (in French and English), 2011
- Comments for the Transportation & Storage Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission
- Managing Spent Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste: Interim and Long-Term Considerations
- Nuclear Waste Contract FOIA Results
- Should Yucca Mountain Remain An Option? (National Journal Expert Blogs)
- Nuclear Power Costs, Alternatives, France, and Yucca Mountain (Vol. 15, No. 2)
- Nuclear Power – Costs, Alternatives, France, and Yucca Mountain (Issue #40)
- Comments on Yucca Mountain and the draft EPA standard
- Disposal of Radioactive Waste in France / A Readiness to Harm (Vol. 13, No. 4)
- Disposal of Radioactive Waste in France / A Readiness to Harm (Issue #34)
- Dangerous Discrepancies: Missing Weapons Plutonium in Los Alamos National Laboratory Waste Accounts
- Comments on the U.S. EPA Proposed Rule for the Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain
- EPA Proposed Rule on Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste Would Seriously Undermine Public Health
- Examen critique du programme de recherche de l’ANDRA pour determiner l’aptitude du site de Bure au confinement geologique des dechets a haute activite et a vie longue (2004)
- Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Vol. 12, No. 3)
- Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Issue #29)
- Energy Department rushing ahead with defective Yucca Mountain design
- Yucca Mountain – An Example Not to Follow
- Independent Institute Recommends Alternative Nuclear Waste Plan
- President Bush Makes Historic, But Wrong, Choice on Nuclear Waste
- A Bad Approach To Nuclear Waste
- Yucca Mountain and the Dilemma of High Level Nuclear Waste (Arjun Makhijani on WILL Focus 580 Radio)
- Department of Energy Makes the Wrong Choice by Selecting Yucca Mountain
- If not Yucca Mountain, then what?
- EPA’s Rule on Repository for High-level Radioactive Waste Seriously Undermines Safe Drinking Water Standards
- Letter from IEER to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board on the suitability of proposed Yucca Mountain repository
- Vice-President Cheney Wrong About French Nuclear Repository Program
- Waste Transmutation / Energy for Peace; Nuclear Power Deception (Vol. 8, No. 3)
- Energy for Peace (Issue #13)
- Comments on the Draft EIS on the Yucca Mountain Repository (DOE/EIS-0250D)
- Comments on the draft EPA standards for a Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repository
- Radioactive Waste Management in Russia and France / Reflections on the NATO Bombing (Vol. 7, No. 4)
- Radioactive Waste in Russia and France / NATO Bombing (Issue #10)
- Comments on the Draft NRC Rule on Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste in a Proposed Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
- Alternative Plan for Highly Radioactive Waste Management in the United States (Vol. 7, No. 3)
- IEER’s Plan for Management of Highly Radioactive Waste (Issue #9)
- Shell Game with Plutonium-Contaminated Waste a Poor Policy
- Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Issue #8)
- Fluid Inclusion Studies of Samples from the Exploratory Study Facility, Yucca Mountain, Nevada
- Sound Radioactive Waste Management Policy (Vol. 6, No. 1)
- Reprocessing Relapse / Tritium Production (Vol. 5, No. 1)
- Analysis of National Academy of Sciences Report on Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste (Vol. 4, No. 4)
- High-Level Dollars, Low-Level Sense
- Glass in the Rocks: Some Issues Concerning the Disposal of Radioactive Borosilicate Glass in a Yucca Mountain Repository
- Heat, High Water, and Rock Instability at Hanford
Nuclear Weapons
- Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons: The Connections
- The Trinity Test (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- NGO discussion during the nuclear weapon ban treaty negotiations at the UN on rising nuclear dangers
- United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination: (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- Radiation and Gender: One Basis for New Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NIRS & IEER Statement)
- Thorium (Th): BBC interviews scientists on thorium, including IEER’s Arjun Makhijani (2016)
- Nuclear Security Summit 2016: KPFA interview with Arjun Makhijani
- Assessing the Harm from Nuclear Weapons Testing and Production (Vienna Conference 2014. Slide presentation)
- From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima (video)
- Universal Transparency: A Goal for the U.S. at the 2012 Nuclear Security Summit (Arms Control Today)
- Non-Proliferation Treaty RevCon: NPT TV with Arjun Makhijani
- BOOK REVIEW: Consequential Damages of Nuclear War; The Rongelap Report
- Inside Track: Arjun discusses proliferation of nuclear weapons
- Democracy’s Edge: Should We Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Bomb? Radio interview of Arjun Makhijani, with hosts Diane Kamp and Dave Zollinger (KMMS-AM, Bozeman, Montana)
- Comments to the DOE on the Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic EIS
- DOE Complex Transformation / French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Vol. 15, No. 3)
- DOE Complex Transformation, French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Issue #41)
- U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Arjun interview on PBS NewsHour
- Plutonium Discrepancies in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex
- The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal and Iran (Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Unaccounted-for plutonium at Los Alamos (Arjun Makhijani interview with Progressive Radio)
- Comments on the Draft EIS for the Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to Production of Radioisotope Power Systems
- Physical, Nuclear, and Chemical Properties of Plutonium
- Readiness to Harm – The Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Complexes (written by Arjun Makhijani for Arms Control Today)
- Kashmir, Nuclear Weapons and Peace
- Uranium Enrichment
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside / Nuclear Targeting (Vol. 12, No. 2)
- Comments on Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS for the Proposed LES Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Facility
- NATO’s Nuclear Conflict / Democratizing Money (Vol. 12, No. 1)
- Money, Oil, and Security
- “Usable” Nuke / NATO Nuclear / Bad Old Days (Issues #26 and #27)
- NATO and Nuclear Disarmament
- The “Usable” Nuke Strikes Back / Back to the Bad Old Days (Vol. 11, No. 4)
- Nuclear Waste threatens water resources
- Anniversary of the First Nuclear Test: Investigate the Fallout and Downwinders
- Radiation and Health, the Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant and Worker Health
- Government Data Projects Worker Cancer Deaths at New Plutonium Bomb Factory
- Dr. Arjun Makhijani on Nuclear Pits Facilities
- Nuclear Targeting: The First 60 Years
- Nuclear targeting turns 60
- History Offers Insights in North Korea Nuclear Dispute
- Ignoring North Korea now would be big mistake: The Progressive, March 2003
- Compliance Assessment of North Korean and U.S. Obligations Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and 1994 Agreed Framework
- LANL Clean Air Act Audits: IEER Monitoring Team Reports
- Radiological Warfare Suspicions Point Up Need for Materials Accounting and Reporting to Enhance Security
- Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Vol. 10, No. 3)
- Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Issue #21)
- Securing the Energy Future of the United States (Vol. 10, No. 2)
- Alternative Energy Plan for the United States (Issue #20)
- Two Case Studies of Environmental-Security Connections
- Law and the Nuclear Establishment (NATO; COGEMA) (Vol. 9, No. 3)
- Law and the Nuclear Establishment / NATO / COGEMA (Issue #17)
- Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- Uranium and You: How Many Birth Defects and Cancers Should Be Allowed in the Name of National Security?
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Plutonium End Game
- Radiation Exposures to Early Nuclear Workers: A Special Report for USA Today
- Nuclear Wastelands
- Nuclear Disarmament and South Asia
- Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Vol. 8, No. 2)
- On 50th anniversary of Soviet atomic test, time to reassess nuclear weapons
- Press Release: Letter to Univ. of CA Regents on Fusion Research and Test Ban Treaty
- Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Vol. 7, No. 2)
- Sign the CTBT & Speak with Authority
- The Future of Nuclear Policy: Deterrence and the Danger of Proliferation: The Urgency of De-Alerting
- Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (double issue with Vol. 7 No.1) (Vol. 6, No. 4)
- Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (Double Issue #6 and #7)
- Dangerous Thermonuclear Quest
- Atomic Audit
- Worker Radiation Dose Records Deeply Flawed / Let Them Drink Milk (Iodine-131) (Vol. 6, No. 2)
- The Use of Weapons Plutonium as Reactor Fuel (Issue #3)
- Sound Radioactive Waste Management Policy (Vol. 6, No. 1)
- India’s Options
- Technical Aspects of the Use of Weapons Plutonium as a Reactor Fuel (Vol. 5, No. 4)
- Heading Off the Plutonium Peril
- Radioactivity in the Fernald Neighborhood (Vol. 5, No. 3)
- Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship (Vol. 5, No. 2)
- The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen
- Reprocessing Relapse / Tritium Production (Vol. 5, No. 1)
- Special Hiroshima and Nagasaki Commemoration Issue (Vol. 4, No. 3)
- “Always” the target?: While U.S. bomb scientists were racing against Germany, military planners were looking toward the Pacific
- What ‘Non-Nuclear’ Japan Is Not Telling the World: and How Tokyo Keeps Its Options Open
- Disposing of Fissile Materials (Vol. 4, No. 1)
- Open the files, please: Japanese government rhetoric about its “nuclear allergy” is not entirely persuasive; it’s time to clear the air
- Report on Chelyabinsk (Vol. 1, No. 3)
- Low-Dose Radiation Exposure / Clean-up of Contaminated Sites (Vol. 1, No. 2)
- The Democratization of Science / Plutonium, A Resource or a Waste? (Vol. 1, No. 1)
- Radioactive Heaven and Earth
- Irradiation of Personnel During Operation Crossroads
Other
- Human Health and Radiation (Vol. 17, No. 1)
- Letter to the U.S. EPA regarding its draft Environmental Justice Strategic Plan
- The G-8 and Global Apartheid
- Special Issue, Global Apartheid versus Global Democracy (Vol. 11, No. 3)
- Special Issue on Global Democracy (Issue #25)
- Environmental and Legal Concerns About Modern War (Vol. 11, No. 2)
- Precision Bombing, Widespread Harm (Issue #24)
- Health Survey at an Indian Nuclear Power Plant / Peace Plan for South Asia (Vol. 11, No. 1)
- Health Survey at an Indian Nuclear Power Plant / Peace Plan for South Asia (Issue #23)
- A Complex, Ill-Defined War on Terrorism (Medicine and Global Survival, Vol. 7 No. 2)
- Poison in the Vadose Zone (INEEL) (Vol. 10, No. 1)
- Poison in the Vadose Zone (Issue #19)
- Pursuing justice for the crimes of September 11, 2001 and reducing the risks of terrorism
- A Call for Gatherings on October 2, Gandhi’s Birthday
- Reflections on September 11, 2001
- Radioactive Waste Management in Russia and France / Reflections on the NATO Bombing (Vol. 7, No. 4)
- Racism, Resources and Nuclear Weapons: Some Reflections on the Rodney King Case
- Strategic Bombing
- Energy and Agriculture in the Third World
Plutonium Disposition
- Comments on the Draft Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
- Slow or Fast, Nuclear Fission is Not the Answer (Yale Environment 360)
- Blue Ribbon Commission Draft Report: Comments from IEER
- Non-Proliferation Treaty RevCon: NPT TV with Arjun Makhijani
- Plutonium Discrepancies in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex
- Comments on the Los Alamos Site Wide EIS
- Dangerous Discrepancies: Missing Weapons Plutonium in Los Alamos National Laboratory Waste Accounts
- Nuclear Waste threatens water resources
- Plutonium Dreams: Making Plutonium a Commercial Fuel
- LANL Clean Air Act Audits: IEER Monitoring Team Reports
- Reducing plutonium storage risks in light of September 11, 2001
- Revival of Pyroprocessing Technology for Nuclear Fuel in Bush Administration Energy Plan Poses Serious Proliferation Dangers
- The NRC should hold a formal proceeding for a MOX fuel fabrication facility
- Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Plutonium End Game
- 161 Organizations Around the World Speak Out Against the Use of Plutonium as a Nuclear Fuel on International “Nix Mox” Day (Press Release)
- Statement by World Nongovernmental Organizations Opposing the Use of Plutonium (MOX) Fuel
- An Alternative Plan for Plutonium Disposition
- Letter to U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Plutonium Disposition
- Стоп МОX! ЭЛЕКТРОННЫЙ БЮЛЛЕТЕНЬ
- Comments on the Supplement to the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Draft Environmental Impact Statement
- Alternative Plan for Highly Radioactive Waste Management in the United States (Vol. 7, No. 3)
- IEER’s Plan for Management of Highly Radioactive Waste (Issue #9)
- DOE Plutonium Fuel Contract Award Inappropriate and Premature
- Comments on the Department of Energy’s Surplus Plutonium Disposition Draft Environmental Impact Statement
- The Use of Weapons Plutonium as Reactor Fuel (Issue #3)
- Technical Aspects of the Use of Weapons Plutonium as a Reactor Fuel (Vol. 5, No. 4)
- Gallium in Weapons-Grade Plutonium and MOX Fuel Fabrication
- What ‘Non-Nuclear’ Japan Is Not Telling the World: and How Tokyo Keeps Its Options Open
- Fissile Materials in a Glass, Darkly
- Disposing of Fissile Materials (Vol. 4, No. 1)
- Open the files, please: Japanese government rhetoric about its “nuclear allergy” is not entirely persuasive; it’s time to clear the air
- Plutonium as a Liability / Dangers of Plutonium (Vol. 3, No. 2)
- Plutonium: Deadly Gold of the Nuclear Age
- The Democratization of Science / Plutonium, A Resource or a Waste? (Vol. 1, No. 1)
- To Reprocess or Not to Reprocess: The PUREX Question
Press Releases and Briefings
- Energy Affordability in Maryland
- Radiation and Gender: One Basis for New Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NIRS & IEER Statement)
- This Changes Everything: free showing (Friday, February 26) of film by Naomi Klein & panel discussion to follow
- U.S. NGOs Urge Prompt Action to Make Nuclear Disarmament a Global Enterprise (Press Release)
- Traveling Wave Reactors: Sodium-cooled Gold at the End of a Nuclear Rainbow?
- Light Water Designs of Small Modular Reactors: Facts and Analysis
- Groups Rebut the Waste Storage Claims of Nuclear Industry
- NRC rushing through waste confidence process (press release and official comments)
- Groups: Japanese Report on Fukushima Reactor Disaster is “Real Wake Up” Call For Sleeping U.S. Regulators
- IEER on “Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities, Phase I”
- Nearly $1 Billion Vogtle Nuclear Reactor Cost Overrun
- NRC Denies Motion; Groups Sue to Block Vogtle Units 3 & 4
- Renewable Minnesota: A technical and economic analysis of a 100% renewable-energy based electricity system for Minnesota
- No More Solyndras: Groups Call on DOE to Release Vogtle Delay & Cost Overrun Information
- Nuclear Power, Tritium, and the Threat to Drinking Water – Minnesota Press Conference
- IEER reacts to Blue Ribbon Commission’s final Report to the Secretary of Energy
- Support for legal challenges to nuclear reactor licensing
- NRC’s Fukushima Task Force Review: IEER’s Preliminary Review
- Reactor Proponents Are Batting 0-6 in State Legislatures in 2011 (PR Newswire)
- Suspend All Nuclear Reactor Licensing; Conduct “Credible” TMI-Style Review
- More Stringent, Coordinated Fukushima Fallout Monitoring Needed to Determine Radioactive Iodine Risk
- Radioactive Iodine Releases from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Reactors May Exceed Those of Three Mile Island by Over 100,000 Times
- Post-Tsunami Situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan
- Nuclear And Coal Have No Place In A “Clean” Energy Standard
- New Mexico Strengthens Limits for Public Disclosure of Radioactively Contaminated Rio Grande Water
- Small Modular Reactors: Fact Sheet
- The Mythology and Messy Reality of Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
- Nuclear Waste Contract FOIA Results
- DOE, Take Back Depleted Uranium Sent to Utah and Send No More
- Industry Setbacks Further Dim Nuclear Renaissance: PSR Press Conference
- The Use of Reference Man in Radiation Protection Standards and Guidance with Recommendations for Change
- NRC Ignores Depleted Uranium Risks
- 3,000+ Organizations and Individuals Urge President Bush “Protect Most Vulnerable from Radiation Exposure”
- Science for the Vulnerable: Setting Radiation and Multiple Exposure Standards
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission Deals Blow to Depleted Uranium Disposal Plans
- EPA Proposed Rule on Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste Would Seriously Undermine Public Health
- BEIR VII Report Raises Major Issues for Radiation Protection
- Feasibility Study of Nuclear Weapons Test Fallout and Related Documents
- Advocates welcome NAS study on nuclear testing health effects
- Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES (plus 2005 update)
- Energy Department rushing ahead with defective Yucca Mountain design
- The Savannah River at Grievous Risk: Analysis of the proposal to leave high-level radioactive waste in the Savannah river watershed
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside: Threats to the Savannah River from Radioactive Contamination at the Savannah River Site
- Comments on the LANL Proposed Chemical and Metallurgical Research Building Replacement Project
- Government Data Projects Worker Cancer Deaths at New Plutonium Bomb Factory
- Benefit of the Doubt Should be Given to Atomic Vets who Have Radiation-Related Diseases
- Precision Bombing, Widespread Harm
- Radiological Warfare Suspicions Point Up Need for Materials Accounting and Reporting to Enhance Security
- Independent Institute Recommends Alternative Nuclear Waste Plan
- Russian and US Experts Respond to Summit Arms Reduction Treaty
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law?
- President Bush Makes Historic, But Wrong, Choice on Nuclear Waste
- DOE Accelerated Cleanup Program of the Nuclear Weapons Complex an Invitation to Lax Standard
- Department of Energy Makes the Wrong Choice by Selecting Yucca Mountain
- Setting Cleanup Standards to Protect Future Generations
- De-alerting Russian and US nuclear weapons: A path to reducing nuclear dangers
- Securing the Energy Future of the United States
- Poison in the Vadose Zone
- Japanese Government Should Halt Construction of Plutonium Extraction and Fuel Fabrication Plant
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Vol. 9, No. 4)
- The Cheney Energy Plan: Technically Unsound and Unsustainable
- Uranium Workers Subjected to Dangers Should Be Compensated and Treated Now
- EPA’s Rule on Repository for High-level Radioactive Waste Seriously Undermines Safe Drinking Water Standards
- Revival of Pyroprocessing Technology for Nuclear Fuel in Bush Administration Energy Plan Poses Serious Proliferation Dangers
- Vice-President Cheney Wrong About French Nuclear Repository Program
- Arjun Makhijani The Nuke Slayer (Discover Magazine)
- A Chinese Perspective on National Missile Defense
- Plutonium End Game
- 161 Organizations Around the World Speak Out Against the Use of Plutonium as a Nuclear Fuel on International “Nix Mox” Day (Press Release)
- Radiation Exposures to Early Nuclear Workers: A Special Report for USA Today
- The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble
- Nuclear Disarmament and South Asia
- Japan’s Plutonium Plans vis-a-vis the Tokai Incident
- NATO Bombing in Balkans Could Result in Widespread Ecological Disaster
- Shell Game with Plutonium-Contaminated Waste a Poor Policy
- DOE Plutonium Fuel Contract Award Inappropriate and Premature
- Press Release: Letter to Univ. of CA Regents on Fusion Research and Test Ban Treaty
- Sign the CTBT & Speak with Authority
- Fluid Inclusion Studies of Samples from the Exploratory Study Facility, Yucca Mountain, Nevada
- Dangerous Thermonuclear Quest
- India’s Options
Radiation Protection and Health
- IAEA abandons interests of Pacific region countries as Japan prepares to dump radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean in violation of key IAEA requirements
- Deficiencies in the IAEA review of the TEPCO plan to dump Fukushima radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean
- Trump nominee acknowledges role in under reporting radiation in drinking water (Scripps News story by Mark Greenblatt)
- The Trinity Test (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination: (Conversations on Money, Politics and Science series)
- Radiation and Gender: One Basis for New Nuclear Weapons Treaty (NIRS & IEER Statement)
- Comments on the “Design of a Consent-Based Siting Process for Nuclear Waste and Disposal Storage Facilities”
- Radioactive Waste Still Leaking Five Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Comments to NRC regarding radiation risk models and permissible maximum radiation exposures to the public and to workers
- Comments to the NRC on low-level radioactive waste disposal
- NRC Briefing on Greater-Than-Class C Radioactive Waste
- Comments on the EPA Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations
- Fukushima fallout: Should the West Coast be concerned? (Los Angeles KABC)
- Radioactive Rainwater Overwhelms Fukushima Nuclear Plant (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- A look at nuclear power: do risks outweigh benefits? (CCTV America)
- Fukushima toxic water leak may get upgraded to ‘serious incident’ (KPCC Radio Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Calls for seafood tests due to radiation leak in Japan (MSN News)
- BBC World News: Radioactive water leaks at stricken Fukushima Daiichi reactors
- Six Telling Figures from Japan’s Leaking Fukushima Nuclear Plant (PBS NewsHour)
- Radioactive Water from Fukushima in the Pacific (Living on Earth Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Human Health and Radiation (Vol. 17, No. 1)
- On life near two nuclear power plants in Illinois: an interview with Cindy and Joe Sauer
- Follow-up Memo to NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane
- Kindle Project Blog features IEER and Arjun Makhijani, for IEER’s 25th Anniversary in 2012
- IEER on “Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities, Phase I”
- Minnesota Public Radio: Nuclear power safety one year after Fukushima disaster
- Fukushima Anniversary: KPFA’s Philip Maldari interviews Arjun Makhijani and Kevin Kamps
- Long-Term Waste Confidence and Temporary Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
- Nuclear Power, Tritium, and the Threat to Drinking Water – Minnesota Press Conference
- IEER reacts to Blue Ribbon Commission’s final Report to the Secretary of Energy
- New LLRW EIS needed for NRC’s Volume Reduction and Blending Policy: IEER Comments
- BRC Draft Report: Yakama Nation ERWM Program Comments by IEER
- CBC News: Nuclear Tension, Fukushima, TV interview with Arjun Makhijani
- KHOU-TV: EPA underreports radiation in America’s drinking water (2011)
- Fukushima and Food Contamination: Between the Lines’ Scott Harris interviews Arjun Makhijani
- NRC’s Fukushima Task Force Review: IEER’s Preliminary Review
- Reprocessing: IEER’s Comments on NRC’s “Draft Regulatory Basis for a Potential Rulemaking…”
- BRC Transportation and Storage Subcommittee’s Draft Report: IEER’s Comments
- DOE’s Greater-Than-Class C Waste Draft EIS: Comments by the Yakama Nation ERWM Program and IEER
- Unique Waste Streams Rulemaking (10 CFR Part 61) – including Depleted Uranium Disposal: IEER Comments to the NRC
- Internal Dose Estimates Needed in Area of Fukushima Daiichi Plant (in Japanese and English)
- More Stringent, Coordinated Fukushima Fallout Monitoring Needed to Determine Radioactive Iodine Risk
- Issues of Water and Light in the Turbine Buildings at Fukushima Daiichi
- Radiation and Human Health
- Perspectives on the NAS Studying Cancer Risk in Populations Living near Nuclear Power Facilities
- Hanford Site Tank Closure and Waste Management Draft EIS: Comments by the Yakama Nation ERWM Program and IEER
- BOOK REVIEW: Consequential Damages of Nuclear War; The Rongelap Report
- DOE, Take Back Depleted Uranium Sent to Utah and Send No More
- New Mexico’s 2009 Triennial Review of the Water Quality Standards
- Depleted Uranium Waste, NRC is on the Wrong Track: IEER Comments
- Depleted Uranium Waste Rulemaking: Notes from the Sept. 2009 NRC Workshop
- Radioactive Rivers and Rain / Retiring Reference Man (Vol. 16, No. 1)
- Table of Nuclear Reactor Accidents
- The Use of Reference Man in Radiation Protection Standards and Guidance with Recommendations for Change
- Residual Radioactivity in Your Neighborhood
- What is RESRAD? / Where is Reference Man? / Carbon Free, Nuclear Free Statement of Principles (Vol. 15, No. 4)
- DOE Complex Transformation / French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Vol. 15, No. 3)
- DOE Complex Transformation, French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Issue #41)
- Comments to the Science Advisory Board of the EPA
- Cotter/Lincoln Park Superfund Site: Health and Environment Report and Document Review
- Testimony of Arjun Makhijani and Sara Barczak on Behalf of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
- Radiological and Chemical Fact Sheets to Support Health Risk Analyses for Contaminated Areas
- Healthy from the Start / Tritium (Vol. 14, No. 4)
- Healthy from the Start / Tritium (Issue #38)
- Fernald Waste Management / Radium and Plutonium Environmental Transport (Vol. 14, No. 3)
- Science for the Vulnerable: Setting Radiation and Multiple Exposure Standards
- Open Letter to President Bush on Protecting the Most Vulnerable
- Comments on the Los Alamos Site Wide EIS
- The Environmental Transport of Radium and Plutonium: A Review
- Los Alamos Cleanup / Chernobyl (Vol. 14, No. 1)
- IEER Memorandum on Tritium
- Statement on Tritium
- Disposal of Radioactive Waste in France / A Readiness to Harm (Vol. 13, No. 4)
- Disposal of Radioactive Waste in France / A Readiness to Harm (Issue #34)
- Soil Cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory: Sediment Contamination in the South Fork of Acid Canyon
- Letter to the U.S. EPA regarding its draft Environmental Justice Strategic Plan
- Bad to the Bone, Drinking Water Standards for Plutonium (Vol. 13, No. 3)
- Bad to the Bone: Plutonium Drinking Water Standards in the U.S. (Issue #33)
- Bad to the Bone
- BEIR VII Report Raises Major Issues for Radiation Protection
- Readiness to Harm – The Health Effects of Nuclear Weapons Complexes (written by Arjun Makhijani for Arms Control Today)
- Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Vol. 13, No. 2)
- Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Issue #32)
- Feasibility Study of Nuclear Weapons Test Fallout and Related Documents
- Testimony to NAS Committee on Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
- Assessing Uranium-Related Radiation Issues
- Letter to NAS committee assessing the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
- The Savannah River at Grievous Risk: Analysis of the proposal to leave high-level radioactive waste in the Savannah river watershed
- “Usable” Nuke / NATO Nuclear / Bad Old Days (Issues #26 and #27)
- The “Usable” Nuke Strikes Back / Back to the Bad Old Days (Vol. 11, No. 4)
- Nuclear Waste threatens water resources
- Comments on the LANL Proposed Chemical and Metallurgical Research Building Replacement Project
- Anniversary of the First Nuclear Test: Investigate the Fallout and Downwinders
- Radiation and Health, the Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant and Worker Health
- Dr. Arjun Makhijani on Atomic Vets
- Benefit of the Doubt Should be Given to Atomic Vets who Have Radiation-Related Diseases
- Radioactive Milk in America
- LANL Clean Air Act Audits: IEER Monitoring Team Reports
- Health Survey at an Indian Nuclear Power Plant / Peace Plan for South Asia (Vol. 11, No. 1)
- Health Survey at an Indian Nuclear Power Plant / Peace Plan for South Asia (Issue #23)
- Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Vol. 10, No. 3)
- Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Issue #21)
- Fact Sheet on Fallout Report and Related Maps
- Securing the Energy Future of the United States (Vol. 10, No. 2)
- Alternative Energy Plan for the United States (Issue #20)
- Setting Cleanup Standards to Protect Future Generations
- Poison in the Vadose Zone (INEEL) (Vol. 10, No. 1)
- Poison in the Vadose Zone (Issue #19)
- Government should bear the burden of proof in Compensation cases
- Uranium Workers Subjected to Dangers Should Be Compensated and Treated Now
- Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Forgotten Exposures / Nuclear Plant Risk Studies (Vol. 9, No. 1)
- Forgotten Exposures; Nuclear Plant Risk (Issue #15)
- Ionizing Radiation / Uranium (Vol. 8, No. 4)
- Testimony on Nuclear Workers
- Radiation Exposures to Early Nuclear Workers: A Special Report for USA Today
- Worker Doses, Global Truth Commission (Issue #14)
- Wind Versus Plutonium / Fuel Cells (Vol. 8, No. 1)
- Wind Power versus Plutonium (Issue #11)
- Paducah — Never Again
- Alternative Plan for Highly Radioactive Waste Management in the United States (Vol. 7, No. 3)
- NATO Bombing in Balkans Could Result in Widespread Ecological Disaster
- IEER’s Plan for Management of Highly Radioactive Waste (Issue #9)
- WIPP: Shipments of LANL Wastes to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
- Worker Radiation Dose Records Deeply Flawed / Let Them Drink Milk (Iodine-131) (Vol. 6, No. 2)
- Health Risks of Ionizing Radiation (Issue #4)
- Radioactivity in the Fernald Neighborhood (Vol. 5, No. 3)
- Fissile Materials Health & Environmental Dangers
- Tritium: The environmental, health, budgetary, and strategic effects of the Department of Energy’s decision to produce tritium
- Reprocessing Relapse / Tritium Production (Vol. 5, No. 1)
- Transuranics in Bone of Deceased Former Residents of Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands
- Analysis of National Academy of Sciences Report on Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste (Vol. 4, No. 4)
- Nuclear Testing and Weapons Design (Vol. 4, No. 2)
- Reports on Radiation, Health, and the Environment
- Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing in the Marshall Islands (Rongelap Resettlement Project)
- Human Radiation Experiments / Radiation Clean-up Standards (Vol. 3, No. 1)
- How Many Nuclear Weapons is Enough? (Vol. 2, No. 3)
- Sound Science and Freedom of Information ? (Vol. 2, No. 2)
- Plutonium — Deadly Waste of the Nuclear Age (Vol. 2, No. 1)
- Report on Chelyabinsk (Vol. 1, No. 3)
- Low-Dose Radiation Exposure / Clean-up of Contaminated Sites (Vol. 1, No. 2)
- Radioactive Heaven and Earth
- Glass in the Rocks: Some Issues Concerning the Disposal of Radioactive Borosilicate Glass in a Yucca Mountain Repository
Radioactive Waste
- Technology Review (1988): Hidden Nuclear Legacy
- Pilgrim’s Progress: Inside the American Nuclear-Waste Crisis, The New Yorker (2016)
- Radioactive Waste Still Leaking Five Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Comments to the NRC on low-level radioactive waste disposal
- NRC Briefing on Greater-Than-Class C Radioactive Waste
- Declaration in support to reopen the record of NRC license and re-licence proceedings
- Radioactive Rainwater Overwhelms Fukushima Nuclear Plant (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Human Health and Radiation (Vol. 17, No. 1)
- Nuclear Waste Management: Alan Stahler Interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Groups Rebut the Waste Storage Claims of Nuclear Industry
- Comments to the NRC on low-level waste disposal
- NRC rushing through waste confidence process (press release and official comments)
- Follow-up Memo to NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane
- Slow or Fast, Nuclear Fission is Not the Answer (Yale Environment 360)
- IEER on “Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities, Phase I”
- Long-Term Waste Confidence and Temporary Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
- IEER reacts to Blue Ribbon Commission’s final Report to the Secretary of Energy
- New LLRW EIS needed for NRC’s Volume Reduction and Blending Policy: IEER Comments
- BRC Draft Report: Yakama Nation ERWM Program Comments by IEER
- Reprocessing: IEER’s Comments on NRC’s “Draft Regulatory Basis for a Potential Rulemaking…”
- BRC Transportation and Storage Subcommittee’s Draft Report: IEER’s Comments
- DOE’s Greater-Than-Class C Waste Draft EIS: Comments by the Yakama Nation ERWM Program and IEER
- Unique Waste Streams Rulemaking (10 CFR Part 61) – including Depleted Uranium Disposal: IEER Comments to the NRC
- The French High-Level Waste Repository Program: IEER’s Bure report (in French and English), 2011
- Comments for the Transportation & Storage Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission
- Managing Spent Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste: Interim and Long-Term Considerations
- Nuclear Waste Contract FOIA Results
- Hanford Site Tank Closure and Waste Management Draft EIS: Comments by the Yakama Nation ERWM Program and IEER
- DOE, Take Back Depleted Uranium Sent to Utah and Send No More
- Depleted Uranium Waste, NRC is on the Wrong Track: IEER Comments
- Depleted Uranium Waste Rulemaking: Notes from the Sept. 2009 NRC Workshop
- The Use of Reference Man in Radiation Protection Standards and Guidance with Recommendations for Change
- Should Yucca Mountain Remain An Option? (National Journal Expert Blogs)
- DOE Complex Transformation / French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Vol. 15, No. 3)
- DOE Complex Transformation, French Nuclear Tests in the Sahara (Issue #41)
- Italian radioactive waste: its classification and proposed disposal in Utah
- Comments on Disposal of Greater-Than-Class-C Low-Level Radioactive Waste
- Cotter/Lincoln Park Superfund Site: Health and Environment Report and Document Review
- Fernald Waste Management / Radium and Plutonium Transport (Issue #37)
- Fernald Waste Management / Radium and Plutonium Environmental Transport (Vol. 14, No. 3)
- Comments on the Los Alamos Site Wide EIS
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Vol. 14, No. 2)
- Los Alamos Cleanup / Chernobyl (Issue #35)
- Los Alamos Cleanup / Chernobyl (Vol. 14, No. 1)
- Disposal of Radioactive Waste in France / A Readiness to Harm (Vol. 13, No. 4)
- Disposal of Radioactive Waste in France / A Readiness to Harm (Issue #34)
- Dangerous Discrepancies: Missing Weapons Plutonium in Los Alamos National Laboratory Waste Accounts
- Soil Cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory: Sediment Contamination in the South Fork of Acid Canyon
- Bad to the Bone, Drinking Water Standards for Plutonium (Vol. 13, No. 3)
- Bad to the Bone: Plutonium Drinking Water Standards in the U.S. (Issue #33)
- EPA Proposed Rule on Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste Would Seriously Undermine Public Health
- Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Vol. 13, No. 2)
- Risks of Depleted Uranium Waste / Uranium Health Risks (Issue #32)
- Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES (plus 2005 update)
- What the DOE Knows it Doesn’t Know about Grout
- Additional Comments on the Pantex Plant Radiological Investigation Report
- The Savannah River at Grievous Risk: Analysis of the proposal to leave high-level radioactive waste in the Savannah river watershed
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside: Threats to the Savannah River from Radioactive Contamination at the Savannah River Site
- The “Usable” Nuke Strikes Back / Back to the Bad Old Days (Vol. 11, No. 4)
- Nuclear Waste threatens water resources
- Comments on the proposed rule on “controlling the disposition of solid materials.”
- LANL Clean Air Act Audits: IEER Monitoring Team Reports
- Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Vol. 10, No. 3)
- Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Issue #21)
- Yucca Mountain and the Dilemma of High Level Nuclear Waste (Arjun Makhijani on WILL Focus 580 Radio)
- If not Yucca Mountain, then what?
- Poison in the Vadose Zone
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Vol. 9, No. 4)
- Law and the Nuclear Establishment (NATO; COGEMA) (Vol. 9, No. 3)
- Vice-President Cheney Wrong About French Nuclear Repository Program
- Law and the Nuclear Establishment / NATO / COGEMA (Issue #17)
- Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Your Very Own Cold War Souvenir: What to do with the country’s radioactive legacy
- Incineration of Radioactive and Mixed Waste
- Ionizing Radiation / Uranium (Vol. 8, No. 4)
- Worker Doses, Global Truth Commission (Issue #14)
- Waste Transmutation / Energy for Peace; Nuclear Power Deception (Vol. 8, No. 3)
- The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble
- Energy for Peace (Issue #13)
- Comments on the Draft EIS on the Yucca Mountain Repository (DOE/EIS-0250D)
- Comments of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research on the Department of Energy Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Facility RCRA and TSCA Permit
- Comments on the draft EPA standards for a Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repository
- Letter to the NRC re: Release of Radioactively Contaminated Materials
- Comments on the Draft NRC Rule on Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste in a Proposed Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
- Alternative Plan for Highly Radioactive Waste Management in the United States (Vol. 7, No. 3)
- IEER’s Plan for Management of Highly Radioactive Waste (Issue #9)
- Shell Game with Plutonium-Contaminated Waste a Poor Policy
- Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Issue #8)
- Comments on DOE Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project Draft EIS
- WIPP: Shipments of LANL Wastes to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
- Comments on Long-Term Management and Use of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
- Worker Radiation Dose Records Deeply Flawed / Let Them Drink Milk (Iodine-131) (Vol. 6, No. 2)
- Containing the Cold War Mess
- The International Civilian Reprocessing Business (Issue #2)
- Radioactivity in the Fernald Neighborhood (Vol. 5, No. 3)
- Comments on DOE Notice of Intent on Management and Use of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
- Human Radiation Experiments / Radiation Clean-up Standards (Vol. 3, No. 1)
- Radioactive and Mixed Waste Incineration
- Report on Chelyabinsk (Vol. 1, No. 3)
- High-Level Dollars, Low-Level Sense
- Low-Dose Radiation Exposure / Clean-up of Contaminated Sites (Vol. 1, No. 2)
- Glass in the Rocks: Some Issues Concerning the Disposal of Radioactive Borosilicate Glass in a Yucca Mountain Repository
- Deadly Crop in the Tank Farm
Renewable Energy
- A report for Just Solutions on the role of long-duration energy storage in a decarbonized and resilient electricity sector.
- Energy Affordability in Maryland
- Exploring Farming and Solar Synergies: An Analysis Using Maryland Data
- Presentation regarding community solar on the Montgomery County, Maryland Agricultural Reserve
- Gold on the Roof
- Achieving Montgomery County’s Ambitious Ambitious Climate Goals: Sketch of a Vision
- 100% Renewable Electricity Supply for Maryland by 2035: Technical, Economic, and Fiscal Feasibility
- A Clean Energy Pathway for New Jersey (2017)
- Will Maryland Pioneer Offshore Wind Farming in America? (The Real News Network, April 27, 2017)
- Heat pumps should be part of New York State’s energy future
- New York State should switch to electric heating systems to save money, environment
- NYSERDA’s Renewable Heating and Cooling Policy Framework (2017): IEER Comments
- Making Residential Heating and Cooling Climate-Friendly in New York State (revised July 2017)
- Maryland’s Grid Transformation: Four points
- Prosperous, Renewable Maryland: Roadmap for a Healthy, Economical, and Equitable Energy Future
- Beyond a Band-Aid: A Discussion Paper on Protecting Workers and Communities in the Great Energy Transition
- Net Metering and Distributed Energy Resources: Maryland’s Future (Slides)
- Energy Justice in Maryland’s Residential and Renewable Energy Sectors
- Nuclear Power and Climate Change (a short paper)
- Testimony on Minnesota’s Nuclear Moratorium at the Senate Energy and Environment Committee
- Energy Efficient and Pollution-Free Space Heating and Cooling in Maryland
- IEER Comments on the EPA Proposed Clean Power Plan
- Comments on the Application to FERC regarding the Exelon Proposal to Acquire PHI
- A carbon-free and nuclear-free New York? (WCNY Radio)
- Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy Economy Is Inevitable (truth-out.org)
- Making the Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free Energy Economy Real (Clearing the FOG radio)
- Storing Renewable Energy (Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- Carbon Free and Nuclear Free (Alan Stahler interviews Arjun Makhijani)
- Comments to the MN Public Utility Commission on Xcel Energy’s Resource Plan
- Role of Energy in Economic and Global Security (Voice of Russia interview)
- Kindle Project Blog features IEER and Arjun Makhijani, for IEER’s 25th Anniversary in 2012
- Slow or Fast, Nuclear Fission is Not the Answer (Yale Environment 360)
- Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free States (Vol. 16, No. 3)
- Arjun Makhijani talks to Helen Caldicott on the downsides of thorium reactors
- May 5, a historic date in nuclear weapons and nuclear power: Kyodo News op-ed
- Renewable Minnesota: A technical and economic analysis of a 100% renewable-energy based electricity system for Minnesota
- Solar Power for Minnesota
- An efficient and fully renewable energy system in the United States by 2050
- Washington, Wall Street Mired On Energy (National Journal Expert Blog)
- Splashlife: Counterpoint: It’s Time to Close the Chapter on U.S. Nuclear Power
- EnergyNow TV: Carbon and Nuclear Free in 40 Years? Interview with Arjun Makhijani (Video)
- Nuclear And Coal Have No Place In A “Clean” Energy Standard
- Why Minnesota should maintain its moratorium on new nuclear reactors: Testimony before legislators
- eUtah: A Renewable Energy Roadmap
- What will it take to phase out fossil fuels and nuclear energy? (KBOO Radio)
- Role of Smart Grid and Energy Storage in a Renewable Electricity System
- Matching Utility Loads with Solar and Wind Power in North Carolina
- Watts Bar Unit 2: Does TVA Need the Power? Petition to NRC and Declaration (Feb. 4, 2010)
- Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Renewable Electricity System in the U.S.
- List of more interviews and articles from 2008 by Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-Free, Nuclear-Free
- Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore Debate the Future of Nuclear Energy
- San Antonio’s Bright Energy Future
- Statement of Hugh B. Haskell Regarding the Approval of New Nuclear and Coal-Fired Power Plants in NC
- KOHO Radio (WA): Debate between Arjun Makhijani and Patrick Moore on the future of nuclear energy
- KUOW Radio (WA): Ross Reynolds interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Nuclear Is Not the Right Alternative Energy Source
- Deseret News (Utah): Nuclear power, not renewable energy, is risky course for U.S., by Arjun Makhijani
- Nuclear Power Costs, Alternatives, France, and Yucca Mountain (Vol. 15, No. 2)
- Nuclear Power – Costs, Alternatives, France, and Yucca Mountain (Issue #40)
- Arjun Makhijani on Carbon-free, Nuclear-free energy
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free, A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (Vol. 15, No. 1)
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear Free – A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy (Issue #39)
- Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change
- Low-Carbon Diet without Nukes in France
- Our Electric Future: A Non-Nuclear Low Carb Diet?
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm (Vol. 12, No. 4)
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm (Issue #30)
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm
- Oil and War or Wind?
- Securing the Energy Future of the United States
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Vol. 9, No. 4)
- The Cheney Energy Plan: Technically Unsound and Unsustainable
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Issue #18)
- Wind Versus Plutonium / Fuel Cells (Vol. 8, No. 1)
- Wind Power versus Plutonium (Issue #11)
- Wind Power Versus Plutonium
- Nuclear Power, No Solution to Global Climate Change (Vol. 6, No. 3)
- Nuclear Power No Solution to Global Climate Change (Issue #5)
- A Time to Choose: America’s Energy Future
Reprocessing
- Traveling Wave Reactors: Sodium-cooled Gold at the End of a Nuclear Rainbow?
- Spent Fuel and Reprocessing Myths and Realities
- Reprocessing, Mythology versus Reality (Vol. 16, No. 2)
- IEER reacts to Blue Ribbon Commission’s final Report to the Secretary of Energy
- Blue Ribbon Commission Draft Report: Comments from IEER
- BRC Draft Report: Yakama Nation ERWM Program Comments by IEER
- Reprocessing: IEER’s Comments on NRC’s “Draft Regulatory Basis for a Potential Rulemaking…”
- Managing Spent Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste: Interim and Long-Term Considerations
- Non-Proliferation Treaty RevCon: NPT TV with Arjun Makhijani
- The Mythology and Messy Reality of Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
- Resources related to the DOE’s Proposal for a Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
- Nuclear Power and Global Warming / Plutonium Discrepancies at Los Alamos (Vol. 14, No. 2)
- International experience with reprocessing and related technologies
- Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Vol. 10, No. 3)
- Cleanup Standards for Future Generations / COGEMA (Issue #21)
- Cogema: Above the Law?
- Japanese Government Should Halt Construction of Plutonium Extraction and Fuel Fabrication Plant
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Vol. 9, No. 4)
- U.S. Energy Policy / Rokkasho Nuclear Fuel Complex (Issue #18)
- Law and the Nuclear Establishment (NATO; COGEMA) (Vol. 9, No. 3)
- Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Plutonium End Game
- 161 Organizations Around the World Speak Out Against the Use of Plutonium as a Nuclear Fuel on International “Nix Mox” Day (Press Release)
- An Alternative Plan for Plutonium Disposition
- Waste Transmutation / Energy for Peace; Nuclear Power Deception (Vol. 8, No. 3)
- Energy for Peace (Issue #13)
- Comments on the Draft Standard Review Plan for the Review of an Application for a Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility
- Wind Versus Plutonium / Fuel Cells (Vol. 8, No. 1)
- Comments on the Sellafield MOX Plant Consultation
- DOE Plutonium Fuel Contract Award Inappropriate and Premature
- Reprocessing and Spent Nuclear Fuel Management at the Savannah River Site
- Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Vol. 7, No. 2)
- Comments on the Department of Energy’s Surplus Plutonium Disposition Draft Environmental Impact Statement
- The Use of Weapons Plutonium as Reactor Fuel (Issue #3)
- Sound Radioactive Waste Management Policy (Vol. 6, No. 1)
- Technical Aspects of the Use of Weapons Plutonium as a Reactor Fuel (Vol. 5, No. 4)
- Gallium in Weapons-Grade Plutonium and MOX Fuel Fabrication
- The International Civilian Reprocessing Business (Issue #2)
- Heading Off the Plutonium Peril
- Risky Relapse into Reprocessing
- Reprocessing Relapse / Tritium Production (Vol. 5, No. 1)
- Open the files, please: Japanese government rhetoric about its “nuclear allergy” is not entirely persuasive; it’s time to clear the air
- Sound Science and Freedom of Information ? (Vol. 2, No. 2)
- Plutonium: Deadly Gold of the Nuclear Age
- To Reprocess or Not to Reprocess: The PUREX Question
Safety
September 11
Small Modular Reactors
South Asia
- Kashmir, Nuclear Weapons and Peace
- Special Issue, Global Apartheid versus Global Democracy (Vol. 11, No. 3)
- Special Issue on Global Democracy (Issue #25)
- Short history of Kashmir dispute
- More Sign Posts for Peace in South Asia
- Scrap plans for fast breeder reactor
- Nuclear Disarmament and South Asia
- Sign the CTBT & Speak with Authority
- Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (double issue with Vol. 7 No.1) (Vol. 6, No. 4)
- India’s Options
- Draft Power in South Asian Food Grain Production: Analysis of the Problem and Suggestions for Policy
Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste
- Comments on the “Design of a Consent-Based Siting Process for Nuclear Waste and Disposal Storage Facilities”
- Radioactive Waste Still Leaking Five Years After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Declaration in support to reopen the record of NRC license and re-licence proceedings
- Comments on the EPA Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations
- NRC Draft Waste Confidence Generic Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Rule – Expert Declaration by Arjun Makhijani
- Removing fuel rods from Fukushima Unit 4 (Up Front interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Radioactive Rainwater Overwhelms Fukushima Nuclear Plant (The Real News Network interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Spent Fuel and Reprocessing Myths and Realities
- Nuclear Waste Management: Alan Stahler Interviews Arjun Makhijani
- Groups Rebut the Waste Storage Claims of Nuclear Industry
- NRC rushing through waste confidence process (press release and official comments)
- Sûreté nucléaire en France post-Fukushima (Post-Fukushima Nuclear Safety in France)
- Long-Term Waste Confidence and Temporary Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
- Blue Ribbon Commission Draft Report: Comments from IEER
- BRC Draft Report: Yakama Nation ERWM Program Comments by IEER
- NRC’s Fukushima Task Force Review: IEER’s Preliminary Review
- Reprocessing: IEER’s Comments on NRC’s “Draft Regulatory Basis for a Potential Rulemaking…”
- BRC Transportation and Storage Subcommittee’s Draft Report: IEER’s Comments
- The French High-Level Waste Repository Program: IEER’s Bure report (in French and English), 2011
- Spent nuclear fuel pools vulnerable to terrorist attacks (Kyodo News)
- Small Modular Reactors: Fact Sheet
- A US nuclear future?: Commentary in Nature.
- Comments for the Transportation & Storage Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission
- Managing Spent Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste: Interim and Long-Term Considerations
- The Mythology and Messy Reality of Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
- Nuclear Waste Contract FOIA Results
- Hanford Site Tank Closure and Waste Management Draft EIS: Comments by the Yakama Nation ERWM Program and IEER
- A New Energy Model for Spain
- Should Yucca Mountain Remain An Option? (National Journal Expert Blogs)
- Minnesota Legislature: Discussion of nuclear power
- Comments on the NRC’s Proposed Waste Confidence Rule Update
- Comments on Yucca Mountain and the draft EPA standard
- Resources related to the DOE’s Proposal for a Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
- Testimony of Arjun Makhijani and Sara Barczak on Behalf of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
- Fernald Waste Management / Radium and Plutonium Environmental Transport (Vol. 14, No. 3)
- Shifting Radioactivity Risks: A Case Study of the K-65 Silos and Silo 3 Remediation and Waste Management at the Fernald Nuclear Weapons Site
- Comments on the U.S. EPA Proposed Rule for the Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain
- EPA Proposed Rule on Repository for High-Level Radioactive Waste Would Seriously Undermine Public Health
- Examen critique du programme de recherche de l’ANDRA pour determiner l’aptitude du site de Bure au confinement geologique des dechets a haute activite et a vie longue (2004)
- What the DOE Knows it Doesn’t Know about Grout
- Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Vol. 12, No. 3)
- Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Issue #29)
- The Savannah River at Grievous Risk: Analysis of the proposal to leave high-level radioactive waste in the Savannah river watershed
- Nuclear Waste threatens water resources
- Plutonium Dreams: Making Plutonium a Commercial Fuel
- Testimony of Arjun Makhijani on Secure Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuel before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations
- Securing the Energy Future of the United States (Vol. 10, No. 2)
- Alternative Energy Plan for the United States (Issue #20)
- A Bad Approach To Nuclear Waste
- DOE Accelerated Cleanup Program of the Nuclear Weapons Complex an Invitation to Lax Standard
- If not Yucca Mountain, then what?
- EPA’s Rule on Repository for High-level Radioactive Waste Seriously Undermines Safe Drinking Water Standards
- Revival of Pyroprocessing Technology for Nuclear Fuel in Bush Administration Energy Plan Poses Serious Proliferation Dangers
- Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Waste Transmutation / Energy for Peace; Nuclear Power Deception (Vol. 8, No. 3)
- Energy for Peace (Issue #13)
- Comments on the draft EPA standards for a Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repository
- Radioactive Waste Management in Russia and France / Reflections on the NATO Bombing (Vol. 7, No. 4)
- Radioactive Waste in Russia and France / NATO Bombing (Issue #10)
- Comments on the Draft NRC Rule on Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste in a Proposed Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
- IEER’s Plan for Management of Highly Radioactive Waste (Issue #9)
- Reprocessing and Spent Nuclear Fuel Management at the Savannah River Site
- IEER Comments on the Savannah River Site Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Draft EIS
- Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Vol. 7, No. 2)
- Cleaning Up the Cold War Mess (Issue #8)
- Containing the Cold War Mess
- The Use of Weapons Plutonium as Reactor Fuel (Issue #3)
- Sound Radioactive Waste Management Policy (Vol. 6, No. 1)
- Technical Aspects of the Use of Weapons Plutonium as a Reactor Fuel (Vol. 5, No. 4)
- The International Civilian Reprocessing Business (Issue #2)
- Risky Relapse into Reprocessing
- Reprocessing Relapse / Tritium Production (Vol. 5, No. 1)
- Analysis of National Academy of Sciences Report on Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste (Vol. 4, No. 4)
- What ‘Non-Nuclear’ Japan Is Not Telling the World: and How Tokyo Keeps Its Options Open
- Open the files, please: Japanese government rhetoric about its “nuclear allergy” is not entirely persuasive; it’s time to clear the air
- High-Level Dollars, Low-Level Sense
- Glass in the Rocks: Some Issues Concerning the Disposal of Radioactive Borosilicate Glass in a Yucca Mountain Repository
- To Reprocess or Not to Reprocess: The PUREX Question
- Heat, High Water, and Rock Instability at Hanford
Technical Reports
- The Trouble with STRIDE: Meeting climate goals and addressing natural gas system stranded costs
- Report on water requirements for hydrogen production prepared for Just Solutions
- Expert Panel views on Fukushima radioactive water dumping proposal
- Questions for NuScale VOYGR Reactor Certification: When Will It Be Done? And then, Will It Be Safe?
- Energy Affordability in Maryland
- Articles on the health and environmental impacts of nuclear weapons testing at the major test sites
- Colorado Energy Affordability Study prepared for the Colorado Energy Office
- Addressing Energy Burdens
- 100% Renewable Electricity Supply for Maryland by 2035: Technical, Economic, and Fiscal Feasibility
- A Clean Energy Pathway for New Jersey (2017)
- Making Residential Heating and Cooling Climate-Friendly in New York State (revised July 2017)
- Prosperous, Renewable Maryland: Roadmap for a Healthy, Economical, and Equitable Energy Future
- Nuclear Power and Climate Change (a short paper)
- Traveling Wave Reactors: Sodium-cooled Gold at the End of a Nuclear Rainbow?
- Renewable Minnesota: A technical and economic analysis of a 100% renewable-energy based electricity system for Minnesota
- Sûreté nucléaire en France post-Fukushima (Post-Fukushima Nuclear Safety in France)
- NRC’s Fukushima Task Force Review: IEER’s Preliminary Review
- The French High-Level Waste Repository Program: IEER’s Bure report (in French and English), 2011
- eUtah: A Renewable Energy Roadmap
- The Mythology and Messy Reality of Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
- Matching Utility Loads with Solar and Wind Power in North Carolina
- A New Energy Model for Spain
- The Use of Reference Man in Radiation Protection Standards and Guidance with Recommendations for Change
- Technical and Economic Feasibility of a Renewable Electricity System in the U.S.
- Residual Radioactivity in Your Neighborhood
- San Antonio’s Bright Energy Future
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Plutonium Discrepancies in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex
- Science for the Vulnerable: Setting Radiation and Multiple Exposure Standards
- Shifting Radioactivity Risks: A Case Study of the K-65 Silos and Silo 3 Remediation and Waste Management at the Fernald Nuclear Weapons Site
- The Environmental Transport of Radium and Plutonium: A Review
- Low-Carbon Diet without Nukes in France
- Dangerous Discrepancies: Missing Weapons Plutonium in Los Alamos National Laboratory Waste Accounts
- Soil Cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory: Sediment Contamination in the South Fork of Acid Canyon
- Bad to the Bone
- Examen critique du programme de recherche de l’ANDRA pour determiner l’aptitude du site de Bure au confinement geologique des dechets a haute activite et a vie longue (2004)
- Costs and Risks of Management and Disposal of Depleted Uranium from the National Enrichment Facility Proposed to be Built in Lea County New Mexico by LES (plus 2005 update)
- What the DOE Knows it Doesn’t Know about Grout
- Uranium Enrichment
- Cash Crop on the Wind Farm
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside: Threats to the Savannah River from Radioactive Contamination at the Savannah River Site
- NATO and Nuclear Disarmament
- Precision Bombing, Widespread Harm
- Cogema: Above the Law?
- Setting Cleanup Standards to Protect Future Generations
- Securing the Energy Future of the United States
- Poison in the Vadose Zone
- Plutonium End Game
- Radiation Exposures to Early Nuclear Workers: A Special Report for USA Today
- The Nuclear Alchemy Gamble
- Wind Power Versus Plutonium
- Fluid Inclusion Studies of Samples from the Exploratory Study Facility, Yucca Mountain, Nevada
- Dangerous Thermonuclear Quest
- WIPP: Shipments of LANL Wastes to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
- Containing the Cold War Mess
- The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen
- Tritium: The environmental, health, budgetary, and strategic effects of the Department of Energy’s decision to produce tritium
- Risky Relapse into Reprocessing
- Transuranics in Bone of Deceased Former Residents of Rongelap Atoll, Marshall Islands
- Fissile Materials in a Glass, Darkly
- Reports on Radiation, Health, and the Environment
- Effects of Nuclear Weapons Testing in the Marshall Islands (Rongelap Resettlement Project)
- Radioactive and Mixed Waste Incineration
- Climate Change and Transnational Corporations: Analysis and Trends
- Glass in the Rocks: Some Issues Concerning the Disposal of Radioactive Borosilicate Glass in a Yucca Mountain Repository
- Draft Power in South Asian Food Grain Production: Analysis of the Problem and Suggestions for Policy
- To Reprocess or Not to Reprocess: The PUREX Question
- Deadly Crop in the Tank Farm
- Heat, High Water, and Rock Instability at Hanford
- Irradiation of Personnel During Operation Crossroads
Testimony and Technical Comments
- IAEA abandons interests of Pacific region countries as Japan prepares to dump radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean in violation of key IAEA requirements
- Memorandum to a National Academies committee regarding low-level radiation research and the protection of pregnant women, the embryo, and the fetus
- Issues related to the environmental remediation of the harm from nuclear weapons testing and use
- Why Small Modular Reactors Won’t Help Counter the Climate Crisis
- Trump nominee acknowledges role in under reporting radiation in drinking water (Scripps News story by Mark Greenblatt)
- NYSERDA’s Renewable Heating and Cooling Policy Framework (2017): IEER Comments
- Maryland’s Electric Affordability Program: IEER Comments on PSC Public Conference 47
- Maryland’s Grid Transformation: Four points
- Comments on the “Design of a Consent-Based Siting Process for Nuclear Waste and Disposal Storage Facilities”
- Comments to NRC regarding radiation risk models and permissible maximum radiation exposures to the public and to workers
- Net Metering and Distributed Energy Resources: Maryland’s Future (Slides)
- Comments to the NRC on low-level radioactive waste disposal
- NRC Briefing on Greater-Than-Class C Radioactive Waste
- Testimony on Minnesota’s Nuclear Moratorium at the Senate Energy and Environment Committee
- Comments on the Exelon proposal to acquire Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- IEER Comments on the EPA Proposed Clean Power Plan
- Declaration in support to reopen the record of NRC license and re-licence proceedings
- Comments on the EPA Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations
- Comments on the Application to FERC regarding the Exelon Proposal to Acquire PHI
- NRC Draft Waste Confidence Generic Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Rule – Expert Declaration by Arjun Makhijani
- Spent Fuel and Reprocessing Myths and Realities
- Comments to the NRC on low-level waste disposal
- NRC rushing through waste confidence process (press release and official comments)
- Comments to the MN Public Utility Commission on Xcel Energy’s Resource Plan
- Comments on the Draft Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
- IEER on “Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities, Phase I”
- Legal Challenge to 20 Year License Extension Proposal for Callaway Nuclear Reactor
- NRC Denies Motion; Groups Sue to Block Vogtle Units 3 & 4
- Long-Term Waste Confidence and Temporary Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
- No More Solyndras: Groups Call on DOE to Release Vogtle Delay & Cost Overrun Information
- Blue Ribbon Commission Draft Report: Comments from IEER
- New LLRW EIS needed for NRC’s Volume Reduction and Blending Policy: IEER Comments
- BRC Draft Report: Yakama Nation ERWM Program Comments by IEER
- An efficient and fully renewable energy system in the United States by 2050
- Support for legal challenges to nuclear reactor licensing
- Reprocessing: IEER’s Comments on NRC’s “Draft Regulatory Basis for a Potential Rulemaking…”
- BRC Transportation and Storage Subcommittee’s Draft Report: IEER’s Comments
- DOE’s Greater-Than-Class C Waste Draft EIS: Comments by the Yakama Nation ERWM Program and IEER
- Unique Waste Streams Rulemaking (10 CFR Part 61) – including Depleted Uranium Disposal: IEER Comments to the NRC
- Suspend All Nuclear Reactor Licensing; Conduct “Credible” TMI-Style Review
- Asia-Pacific Journal: What Caused the High Chlorine-38 Radioactivity in the Fukushima Daiichi Reactor #1
- Why Minnesota should maintain its moratorium on new nuclear reactors: Testimony before legislators
- Comments for the Transportation & Storage Subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission
- Managing Spent Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste: Interim and Long-Term Considerations
- Perspectives on the NAS Studying Cancer Risk in Populations Living near Nuclear Power Facilities
- Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Plants?: Congressional Testimony
- Hanford Site Tank Closure and Waste Management Draft EIS: Comments by the Yakama Nation ERWM Program and IEER
- DOE, Take Back Depleted Uranium Sent to Utah and Send No More
- Watts Bar Unit 2: Does TVA Need the Power? Petition to NRC and Declaration (Feb. 4, 2010)
- New Mexico’s 2009 Triennial Review of the Water Quality Standards
- Depleted Uranium Waste, NRC is on the Wrong Track: IEER Comments
- Depleted Uranium Waste Rulemaking: Notes from the Sept. 2009 NRC Workshop
- Minnesota Legislature: Discussion of nuclear power
- Comments on the NRC’s Proposed Waste Confidence Rule Update
- Statement of Hugh B. Haskell Regarding the Approval of New Nuclear and Coal-Fired Power Plants in NC
- Comments to the DOE on the Draft Complex Transformation Supplemental Programmatic EIS
- Comments on Yucca Mountain and the draft EPA standard
- Comments on Disposal of Greater-Than-Class-C Low-Level Radioactive Waste
- Comments to the Science Advisory Board of the EPA
- Cotter/Lincoln Park Superfund Site: Health and Environment Report and Document Review
- Resources related to the DOE’s Proposal for a Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
- Testimony of Arjun Makhijani and Sara Barczak on Behalf of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
- Comments on the Los Alamos Site Wide EIS
- Comments on the U.S. EPA Proposed Rule for the Public Health and Environmental Radiation Protection Standards for Yucca Mountain
- Letter to the U.S. EPA regarding its draft Environmental Justice Strategic Plan
- Comments on the Draft EIS for the Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to Production of Radioisotope Power Systems
- BEIR VII Report Raises Major Issues for Radiation Protection
- Comments on the Pantex Plant Radiological Investigation Report
- Testimony to NAS Committee on Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
- Additional Comments on the Pantex Plant Radiological Investigation Report
- Comments on Draft Supplemental Site-Wide Stockpile Stewardship and Management Programmatic EIS, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Comments on Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS for the Proposed LES Gas Centrifuge Uranium Enrichment Facility
- Comments on the proposed uranium enrichment plant in New Mexico
- Comments on the LANL Proposed Chemical and Metallurgical Research Building Replacement Project
- Comments on the proposed rule on “controlling the disposition of solid materials.”
- Testimony of Arjun Makhijani on Secure Storage of Nuclear Spent Fuel before the House Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations
- LANL Clean Air Act Audits: IEER Monitoring Team Reports
- Comments to NRC on white papers regarding the proposed enrichment plant in Tennessee
- The NRC should hold a formal proceeding for a MOX fuel fabrication facility
- Testimony on Nuclear Workers
- Comments on the Draft Standard Review Plan for the Review of an Application for a Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility
- Comments on the Draft EIS on the Yucca Mountain Repository (DOE/EIS-0250D)
- Comments of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research on the Department of Energy Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Facility RCRA and TSCA Permit
- Comments on the draft EPA standards for a Yucca Mountain high-level radioactive waste repository
- Letter to the NRC re: Release of Radioactively Contaminated Materials
- Statement on Tritium before the House Committee on Intergovernmental Coordination, State of Georgia
- Comments on the Sellafield MOX Plant Consultation
- Comments on the Draft NRC Rule on Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Waste in a Proposed Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
- Comments on the Supplement to the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Draft Environmental Impact Statement
- IEER Comments on the Savannah River Site Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Draft EIS
- Comments on DOE Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project Draft EIS
- Comments on Long-Term Management and Use of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
- Comments on DOE Notice of Intent on Management and Use of Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride
Texas
- Trump nominee acknowledges role in under reporting radiation in drinking water (Scripps News story by Mark Greenblatt)
- KHOU-TV: EPA underreports radiation in America’s drinking water (2011)
- San Antonio’s Bright Energy Future
- Assessing Nuclear Plant Capital Costs for the Two Proposed NRG Reactors at the South Texas Project Site
- Nuclear Is Not the Right Alternative Energy Source
- Additional Comments on the Pantex Plant Radiological Investigation Report
Treaties/International Law
- U.S.-India Nuclear Deal: Arjun interview on PBS NewsHour
- The U.S.-India Nuclear Deal and Iran (Interview with Arjun Makhijani)
- Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Vol. 12, No. 3)
- Law of the Seas / Yucca Mountain (Issue #29)
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Parties Meet in New York
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside / Nuclear Targeting (Issue #28)
- Nuclear Dumps by the Riverside / Nuclear Targeting (Vol. 12, No. 2)
- NATO’s Nuclear Conflict / Democratizing Money (Vol. 12, No. 1)
- “Usable” Nuke / NATO Nuclear / Bad Old Days (Issues #26 and #27)
- NATO and Nuclear Disarmament
- Dr. Arjun Makhijani on Nuclear Pits Facilities
- Ignoring North Korea now would be big mistake: The Progressive, March 2003
- Broken Pledges
- Environmental and Legal Concerns About Modern War (Vol. 11, No. 2)
- Precision Bombing, Widespread Harm (Issue #24)
- Compliance Assessment of North Korean and U.S. Obligations Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty and 1994 Agreed Framework
- Multilateral Treaties Are Fundamental Tools for Protecting Global Security
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law? (Vol. 10, No. 4)
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law? (Issue #22)
- Rule of Power or Rule of Law?
- Law and the Nuclear Establishment / NATO / COGEMA (Issue #17)
- A Chinese Perspective on National Missile Defense
- Plutonium End Game / Global Truth Commission (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- Plutonium End Game (Issue #16)
- Waste Transmutation / Energy for Peace; Nuclear Power Deception (Vol. 8, No. 3)
- Energy for Peace (Issue #13)
- Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Vol. 8, No. 2)
- Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law (Issue #12)
- Radioactive Waste Management in Russia and France / Reflections on the NATO Bombing (Vol. 7, No. 4)
- Radioactive Waste in Russia and France / NATO Bombing (Issue #10)
- Press Release: Letter to Univ. of CA Regents on Fusion Research and Test Ban Treaty
- Letter to University of California Regents on Fusion Research
- The Future of Nuclear Policy: Deterrence and the Danger of Proliferation: The Urgency of De-Alerting
- Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (double issue with Vol. 7 No.1) (Vol. 6, No. 4)
- Achieving Enduring Nuclear Disarmament (Double Issue #6 and #7)
- Nuclear Power, No Solution to Global Climate Change (Vol. 6, No. 3)
- Nuclear Power No Solution to Global Climate Change (Issue #5)
- Untapped Energy Efficiency
- Crying Wolf About Kyoto
- Science-Based Stockpile Stewardship (Vol. 5, No. 2)
- The Nuclear Safety Smokescreen
- Nuclear Testing and Weapons Design (Vol. 4, No. 2)
- What ‘Non-Nuclear’ Japan Is Not Telling the World: and How Tokyo Keeps Its Options Open
- Open the files, please: Japanese government rhetoric about its “nuclear allergy” is not entirely persuasive; it’s time to clear the air
Tritium
- Analysis of Impact and Compliance Aspects of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s proposal to vent tritium-loaded waste containers
- Expert Panel views on Fukushima radioactive water dumping proposal
- Comments on the EPA Radiation Protection Standards for Nuclear Power Operations
- Human Health and Radiation (Vol. 17, No. 1)
- Nuclear Power, Tritium, and the Threat to Drinking Water – Minnesota Press Conference
- Perspectives on the NAS Studying Cancer Risk in Populations Living near Nuclear Power Facilities
- Tritium Releases to Air and Water from Nuclear Power Plants – Tables of data from 2004 and 2005
- Radioactive Rivers and Rain / Retiring Reference Man (Vol. 16, No. 1)
- Testimony of Arjun Makhijani and Sara Barczak on Behalf of Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE)
- Healthy from the Start / Tritium (Vol. 14, No. 4)
- Healthy from the Start / Tritium (Issue #38)
- Science for the Vulnerable: Setting Radiation and Multiple Exposure Standards
- IEER Memorandum on Tritium
- Statement on Tritium
- Nuclear Waste threatens water resources
- Statement on Tritium before the House Committee on Intergovernmental Coordination, State of Georgia
- Tritium: The environmental, health, budgetary, and strategic effects of the Department of Energy’s decision to produce tritium
- Reprocessing Relapse / Tritium Production (Vol. 5, No. 1)
U.S. State
- The Trouble with STRIDE: Meeting climate goals and addressing natural gas system stranded costs
- Energy Affordability in Maryland
- Exploring Farming and Solar Synergies: An Analysis Using Maryland Data
- 100% Renewable Electricity Supply for Maryland by 2035: Technical, Economic, and Fiscal Feasibility
- Trump nominee acknowledges role in under reporting radiation in drinking water (Scripps News story by Mark Greenblatt)
- A Clean Energy Pathway for New Jersey (2017)
- Will Maryland Pioneer Offshore Wind Farming in America? (The Real News Network, April 27, 2017)
- Heat pumps should be part of New York State’s energy future
- New York State should switch to electric heating systems to save money, environment
- NYSERDA’s Renewable Heating and Cooling Policy Framework (2017): IEER Comments
- Making Residential Heating and Cooling Climate-Friendly in New York State (revised July 2017)
- Maryland’s Electric Affordability Program: IEER Comments on PSC Public Conference 47
- Maryland’s Grid Transformation: Four points
- Prosperous, Renewable Maryland: Roadmap for a Healthy, Economical, and Equitable Energy Future
- Beyond a Band-Aid: A Discussion Paper on Protecting Workers and Communities in the Great Energy Transition
- Net Metering and Distributed Energy Resources: Maryland’s Future (Slides)
- Energy Justice in Maryland’s Residential and Renewable Energy Sectors
- Testimony on Minnesota’s Nuclear Moratorium at the Senate Energy and Environment Committee
- Comments on the Exelon proposal to acquire Pepco Holdings, Inc.
- Energy Efficient and Pollution-Free Space Heating and Cooling in Maryland
- Comments to the MN Public Utility Commission on Xcel Energy’s Resource Plan
- Renewable Minnesota: A technical and economic analysis of a 100% renewable-energy based electricity system for Minnesota
- KHOU-TV: EPA underreports radiation in America’s drinking water (2011)
- eUtah: A Renewable Energy Roadmap
- Matching Utility Loads with Solar and Wind Power in North Carolina
- San Antonio’s Bright Energy Future
- Assessing Nuclear Plant Capital Costs for the Two Proposed NRG Reactors at the South Texas Project Site
- Nuclear Is Not the Right Alternative Energy Source
- Additional Comments on the Pantex Plant Radiological Investigation Report