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Nuclear Weapons and Power-Reactor Plutonium

This article, originally published in Nature in 1980, seeks to provide a discreet, selective, but adequate physical basis for understanding the scope for using reactor-grade…

Thorium Cycles and Proliferation

This is the first in a two-part exchange between Amory Lovins and A. De Volpi about thorium cycles and nuclear proliferation. In this piece, Lovins…

Out of the Frying Pan, Into the PWR

In this paper, Amory Lovins argues that pressurized water reactors (PWR) are an economic disaster. PWRs are a type of nuclear power reactor. Lovins argues…

Resilience in Energy Strategy

In this editorial, Amory Lovins argues that modern society is entirely dependent on the uninterrupted supply of electricity. Due to the over-centralization of our power…