By Kennedy Maize Remember fusion? When it comes to the always touted, never delivered promise of unlimited amounts of energy from smashing atoms together, spring turning to summer produces optimistic proclamations of the advent of fusion energy that appear to wither and die when the autumn equinox arrives. How far away is the practical application … More Fusion and confusion with the perhaps-for-never fuel

By Kennedy Maize The Department of Energy’s long standing cleanup of its legacy nuclear weapons program is short staffed…and it shows. That’s a finding from the General Accounting Office, the congressional watchdog agency. According to a GAO report last month (May 19), DOE’s Office of Environmental Management (EM), which is responsible for cleaning up the … More GAO: DOE’s weapons program cleanup faces deliberate short staffing

By Henry Sokolski With his declaration May 12th that Iran could enrich uranium after a moratorium, President Trump opened up a nuclear Pandora’s box. Whether he seals the deal to take possession of all of Iran’s uranium or fails to reach any nuclear understanding with Tehran at all, his willingness to allow Iran eventually to … More Guest commentary: Getting Iran’s right to enrich wrong