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One Ageing Nuclear Power Plant Less…

One Ageing Nuclear Power Plant Less…

The Belgian nuclear reactor Tihange 2 was shut down on 31.01.2023. The reactor has been controversial for a long time,...

Shouldn’t a new and experimental reactor deserve a federal impact assessment?

Shouldn’t a new and experimental reactor deserve a federal impact assessment?

M.V. Ramana argues in an opinion piece in The Hill Times that “the risks [of sodium-cooled reactors] are all new...

Nuclear Energy in the UK

Nuclear Energy in the UK

Paul Dorfman and Steve Thomas contributed to a POSTnote (a publication by the UK Parliamentary Office Science and Technology) on...

Clean Energy or Weapons? What the ‘Breakthrough’ in Nuclear Fusion Really Means

Clean Energy or Weapons? What the ‘Breakthrough’ in Nuclear Fusion Really Means

The National Ignition Facility reached a milestone: the “ignition” in nuclear fusion – announced by the US Department of Energy...

Plutonium is plutonium, period, and separating it increases nuclear proliferation risks

Plutonium is plutonium, period, and separating it increases nuclear proliferation risks

Together with his colleague Susan O’Donnell, INRAG member M.V. Ramana argues in THE HILL TIMES that “Canada’s support for the...

Nuclear power is just a slow and expensive distraction

Nuclear power is just a slow and expensive distraction

INRAG member Paul Dorfman argues in an article for THE NEW STATESMAN, that “Despite recent breakthroughs in nuclear fusion, renewables...

Could the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant be started up in an emergency?

Could the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant be started up in an emergency?

INRAG member Friederike Frieß is quoted in a DER STANDARD thought experiment in which she clarifies that a resumption of...

Czech Republic plans new SMR – Raphael Zimmerl speaks for INRAG at the press conference of Upper Austria on the topicC

Czech Republic plans new SMR – Raphael Zimmerl speaks for INRAG at the press conference of Upper Austria on the topicC

Cz is planning to build an SMR in the nuclear park south bohemia until 2032. “Upper Austria will certainly not...

Stephen Thomas: Cost of UK NPP commissioning may cost up to 260 billion pounds

Stephen Thomas: Cost of UK NPP commissioning may cost up to 260 billion pounds

Analysis by Stephen Thomas, a professor of energy policy at the University of Greenwich, estimates the total bill for decommissioning...

Chrisoph Pistner and M.V. Ramana quoted in an article about nuclear lifetime extensions

Chrisoph Pistner and M.V. Ramana quoted in an article about nuclear lifetime extensions

Link to article Energymonitor.ai: Christoph Pistner and M.V. Ramana were quoted in this very interesting Energymonitor article regarding their positions...