America’s energy policy is an unmitigated disaster, being driven by a catastrophic man-made climate-change hoax. Instead of using nuclear energy to generate abundant, affordable, and reliable electricity, our leaders...
Modern bias against nuclear power traces its origin to the partial meltdown of a reactor at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in 1979. Fallacies surrounding the event...
This is Part 2 of a two-part series that addresses nuclear power plant safety objectives and the associated safety measures designed to achieve those objectives. The previous article explained...
This is Part 1 of a two-part series that will address nuclear power plant safety objectives and the associated safety measures designed to achieve those objectives. There are three...
The internet and major media are full of fables about nuclear energy. We present a few herein, and discuss some facts dispelling them. ...
The nuclear power complex made a huge mistake in how it originally promoted itself. That’s the contention of former MIT professor Jack Devanney in his latest book, Why Nuclear...
Harnessing the power of the atom to achieve a brighter energy future for the United States has been held back by irrational fear and politics. ...
As a result of many decades of research, the health impacts of radiation are very well-understood. In a 2016 report, “Radiation: Effects and Sources,” the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) noted:...
Most people have a rather simple understanding of how a nuclear reactor works. That is, they know that uranium atoms split into parts (i.e. they “fission”) in a reactor....
Radon has been around since long before mankind appeared on Earth. More than half of our natural background radiation exposure comes from radon, because it is a constituent of...
The American Nuclear Society (ANS) is planning a July 15 webinar entitled “High Expectations for the Future of Low-Dose Radiation Research.” The teaser for this webinar states: Improving humanity’s...
This is the third article in our series dispelling common myths about the risks and benefits of radiation. ...
Editor’s Note: This article is the second in a continuing series published by The New American. For background material, please reference our first article, Dispelling Irrational Fear of Radiation....
The New American is beginning a series featuring reliable nuclear news. ...