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Emergency Preparedness
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Ebola and Syria's Chemical Weapons Show U.S. Can Leave Nothing to Chance
Daniel M. Gerstein @Daniel_Gerstein
Jul 9, 2015
U.S. News & World Report
There are key takeaways from the Ebola outbreak, Syria's chemical weapons, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The U.S. and its international partners should view these events as learning opportunities that could help improve preparedness and response capabilities before the next crisis strikes.
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Nuclear Energy
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Breaking Down Nuclear Waste as a Two-Part Issue
Tom LaTourrette, Debra Knopman
May 5, 2015
Las Vegas Sun
The U.S. Department of Energy is now planning separate repositories for commercial waste and the waste from the military's nuclear weapons production instead of disposing of both in the same repository as originally intended. Decoupling different parts of the nuclear waste problem is a small but positive step forward.
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Nuclear Sciences
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San Onofre Risk Factors
Tom LaTourrette
Jun 20, 2013
The Orange County Register
The ongoing effort to open a spent fuel repository in the U.S. demonstrates the magnitude of the technical and political challenges of such an undertaking, writes Tom LaTourrette.
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Dialogue Can Stop Iran at the Nuclear Threshold
James Dobbins @Jim_Dobbins, Ray Takeyh
Apr 4, 2006
Financial Times
Published commentary by RAND staff: Dialogue Can Stop Iran at the Nuclear Threshold, in the Financial Times.
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