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April 14, 2016
Leigh Phillips
People’s Fission
A supporter's plea for Bernie Sanders to change his mind and embrace nuclear energy.
March 30, 2016
Ben Adler
Is Bernie Sanders’s Nuclear Phaseout Plan a Hippie Pipe Dream or Smart Policy?
March 11, 2014
Nora Caplan-Bricker
The Fukushima Fearmongers
What unites the left and right: a radioactive plume headed for the West Coast
July 14, 1986
Tom Johnson
Lessons of Chernobyl
For pro-nukes, for anti-nukes.
July 11, 1970
Ralph E. Lapp
Power-Hungry America: Where Will We Get the Energy

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