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A Federal Appeals Court ruled earlier this month that President Obama must make a decision about whether to use Yucca Mountain to dump nuclear waste. The Nevada site was designated by the George W. Bush administration as the nation’s only dumping ground for radioactive waste. The project has been halted since 2010, but the recent [more...]  As Japan’s nuclear crisis continues to unfold, many are considering the lessons from Three Mile Island, America’s worst nuclear accident. The Washington Post recently interviewed J. Samuel Walker, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) historian and author of Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective, on the similarities between the two disasters. In Three Mile [more...] UC Press author Sam Walker said he was aiming to go into academia when he landed a job with the federal government as historian of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “For a long time I thought I got the short end of the stick,” he said. But working in the field of history in a non-academic [more...] |
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