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• Radioactive Robot: The Machines That Cleaned Up Three Mile Island
  Robots cleaned up what humans could not because of radioactive contamination after the worst nuclear accident in the nation's history 30 years ago

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• A (Radioactive) Cut in the Earth That Will Not Stay Closed
  Tom Zoellner's book Uranium explores how a historic mine in Africa poses an existential threat

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• Three Mile Island three decades later
  Thirty years ago there was a partial meltdown of a reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania

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• Spent Nuclear Fuel: A Trash Heap Deadly for 250,000 Years or a Renewable Energy Source?
  Nuclear waste is either a millennia's worth of lethal garbage or the fuel of future nuclear reactors--or both

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Reactivating Nuclear Reactors for the Fight against Climate Change
Even environmentalists are reevaluating nuclear power as a possible solution to global warming, but can it really help?

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Finding Fissile Fuel
A new wave of nuclear power plant construction has boosted the price of uranium reactor fuel

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Nuclear Mishap or Meltdown?: It's All a Matter of Degree
An obscure scale helps communicate the relative severity of a nuclear accident

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Can Nuclear Power Compete?
Newly approved reactor designs could reduce global warming and fossil-fuel dependence, but utilities are grappling with whether better nukes make market sense

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Lights Out?: How the Grid Copes When a Nuclear Power Plant Goes Down
What companies are doing to keep consumers out of the dark when a power facility fails

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Loose nukes: Would earthquakes around Yucca Mountain make it unsafe to hold nuclear waste?
Now that Yucca Mountain seems to be out of contention as a nuclear waste repository, how safe was it?