But it doesn’t mean the Nevada site is safe — or even back on the docket.
Nuclear energy
Posted inSeptember 15, 2014: Books & Essays
Tragedy, coincidence and patterns
Review of “Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West” by Sarah Alisabeth Fox.
Posted inArticles
Ruling green lights temporary nuclear waste storage
With no central underground depository, above-ground casks will have to do.
Posted inFebruary 3, 2014: The Hanford Whistleblowers
The Hanford Whistleblowers
For decades, insiders have reported problems in the cleanup of our worst nuclear mess — but is anyone listening?
Posted inJanuary 19, 2009: Blood Quantum
Mountain of doubt
Will the country’s only planned nuclear waste dump survive Obama?
Posted inOctober 16, 2006: A River Once More
Wastin’ away in New Mexico
European-based company breaks ground on uranium enrichment facility
Posted inSeptember 4, 2006: Blast from the Past
The Fourth Wave
Can the West’s uranium towns rise once more?
Posted inSeptember 4, 2006: Blast from the Past
Navajo Windfall
Uranium companies anticipate tomorrow’s profits, while yesterday’s workers await compensation
Posted inSeptember 4, 2006: Blast from the Past
The Hot West
Note: This article is a sidebar to one of this issue’s feature stories, “The Fourth Wave,” in a special issue about the West’s resurgent uranium economy. THE NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE MINING AND MILLING In 1983, mining ceased at Kennecott Energy’s Sweetwater open-pit uranium mine (at right) near Rawlins, Wyo. Uranium ore from traditional open-pit or […]
Posted inSeptember 4, 2006: Blast from the Past
Retooling a Leviathan
The challenges of keeping an aging nuclear infrastructure alive
Posted inSeptember 4, 2006: Blast from the Past
Reborn
The West casts a wary eye on the latest nuclear craze
Posted inWotr
Nuclear energy isn’t clean or a solution
Uravan, in southern Colorado, was once a bustling uranium mill town in the remote West End of my home county. There, employees transformed uranium ore into green sludge, not knowing that it would be used in the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now, Uravan is a deserted cleanup site, too hazardous for anyone […]
Posted inNovember 24, 2003: New Mexico goes head-to-head with a nuclear juggernaut
Atomic comics
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “New Mexico goes head-to-head with a nuclear juggernaut.” Visitors to the “history” section of the Bradbury Science Museum in Los Alamos will find more than photos of early lab workers and atomic test explosions. They’ll also find comic books, including Learn How Dagwood Splits […]
Posted inOctober 13, 2003: The Big Story Written Small
New Mexico: A nuclear homeland?
With open arms, New Mexico’s politicians welcome a new uranium-enrichment plant
Posted inNovember 20, 2000: Water pressure
From nuclear fuel to nature trails
Oregon wants to turn an ex-nuclear power plant into a state park
Posted inMay 30, 1994: Can mining come clean?
Power plant disappears
Was it a hoax? Nine months after residents of Show Low, Ariz., fervently debated a proposal to build a 900-megawatt nuclear power plant in the nearby White Mountains, the proposal is dead. “It all just went away,” Show Low City Manager Patrick Sherman told the Arizona Republic. Last June, Phil Downing, then executive director of […]
Posted inJune 14, 1993: Oregon's Trojan horse
How to repack and shut Pandora’s box
The decommissioning of the Trojan nuclear power plant may serve as a model for other plants. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline How to repack and shut Pandora’s box.
Posted inJune 14, 1993: Oregon's Trojan horse
Oregon’s Trojan horse
Fatally flawed nuclear power plant is shut
Posted inJune 14, 1993: Oregon's Trojan horse
WPPSS’s endless saga
After Trojan closes, Oregon’s last nuclear power plant faces an uncertain future. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline WPPSS’s endless saga.
Posted inJune 14, 1993: Oregon's Trojan horse
Nuclear-free utility
Energy efficiency puts the Sacramento Municipal Utility District into the black. To read this article, download this HCN issue in PDF format. This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Nuclear-free utility.