Archive - Splitting the Atom

Hanford: What a Waste

America has a massive, unresolved waste problem at the Hanford Site in Washington with no clear end in sight

Oct 2, 2024 •

August 2023

Oppenheimer and The End of The World

What the blockbuster reveals about our nuclear fears

Aug 4, 2023 •

February 2023

Is Low-Level Radiation Good For Us? Interview with Dr. Chris Thome

Dr. Thome's research at the world's deepest clean lab explores how radiation may be critical for normal cell function and genomic stability

Feb 7, 2023 •

January 2023

Dose of Reality: A Primer on the Health Impacts of Ionizing Radiation

If we know so much about radiation – what are the real risks of radiation? Is it as dangerous as we tend to think? How much is too much? Can radiation…

Jan 31, 2023 •

Why is French Nuclear Failing So Miserably?

For years, nuclear advocates have pointed to France as a paragon of scalable and reliable decarbonization. But when it was most desperately needed…

Jan 25, 2023 •

February 2022

What Saving Nuclear Taught Me About Coal

When the deal to save the plants was almost lost at the last moment, I had to take a hard look at my own priorities.

Feb 7, 2022 •

September 2021

Illinois: An Important, Bittersweet Victory

Today, Governor Pritzker will sign a comprehensive energy bill that includes a provision to protect two of Illinois’s nuclear plants from…

Sep 15, 2021 •

May 2021

Illinois as clean as California at half the cost, but only if we keep nuclear

Illinois’s clean energy future has been a focal point of this Spring’s legislative session. Key proposals, including the Clean Energy Jobs…

May 22, 2021 •

We will remember Indian Point

Yesterday, I had the privilege of addressing generations of Indian Point workers on the final day of the plant’s operation.

May 1, 2021 •

March 2021

Bitcoin and Baseload: How ‘HODL’ing Nuclear Will Deliver The Future

Bitcoiners need to defend the nuclear fleet and call for a build out of reactors to protect the future they’re trying to build.

Mar 18, 2021 •

January 2021

Why Our Current Nuclear Fleet is Essential — And How It’s in Danger

Last Friday, the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) released its plan for realizing the energy, environmental, and…

Jan 13, 2021 •

November 2020

Campaign for a Green Nuclear Deal: Forging a New America

We need a vision that transcends partisan politics and rebuilds America from the bottom up. That vision is the Green Nuclear Deal.

Nov 16, 2020 •

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