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Japan Risks Reputation in Oceania with Fukushima Discharge
Japan's decision last month to begin discharging treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean from its destroyed Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is fairly unpopular in Oceania, potentially damaging Tokyo's reputation in this increasingly strategic region.
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Sep 28, 2023
Lowy Institute's Interpreter
Derek Grossman @DerekJGrossman

Emergency Preparedness

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Ebola and Syria's Chemical Weapons Show U.S. Can Leave Nothing to Chance
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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Jul 9, 2015
U.S. News & World Report
Daniel M. Gerstein @Daniel_Gerstein
Nuclear Energy

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Breaking Down Nuclear Waste as a Two-Part Issue
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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May 5, 2015
Las Vegas Sun
Tom LaTourrette, Debra Knopman
Nuclear Sciences

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San Onofre Risk Factors
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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Jun 20, 2013
The Orange County Register
Tom LaTourrette
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Dialogue Can Stop Iran at the Nuclear Threshold
Published commentary by RAND staff: Dialogue Can Stop Iran at the Nuclear Threshold, in the Financial Times.
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Apr 4, 2006
Financial Times
James Dobbins, Ray Takeyh

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The COP decisionmaking process reflects its members' consensus views. And therein lies the problem. The Paris Agreement should have achieved the socially better outcomes of binding emissions control to finance and binding each country to its target of emissions and finance.…That it did not do so was because the coalitions' views prevailed rather than the social good.

Rafiq Dossani

Director, RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy

Source: United Press International

Women have fought in wars for as long as humans have waged them. Yet that long history has been either lost or purposefully hidden, complicating efforts to expand women's military roles even as we have steadily gained greater equality in other fields.

Kayla M. Williams

Senior Policy Researcher

Source: Association of the U.S. Army

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Japan Risks Reputation in Oceania with Fukushima Discharge

Ebola and Syria's Chemical Weapons Show U.S. Can Leave Nothing to Chance

Breaking Down Nuclear Waste as a Two-Part Issue

San Onofre Risk Factors

Dialogue Can Stop Iran at the Nuclear Threshold

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