by Gwyneth Cravens
Discover Magazine
Published online April 25, 2008

Despite its negative image, nuclear energy may be the most efficient and realistic means of meeting the rapidly-growing demand for power in the United States...read more

Gwyneth Cravens
Featured in WIRED, from Power to Save the World
December 7, 2007

Visiting New Mexico's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, the only active long-term nuclear-waste-burial facility in the country...read more

Posted November 5, 2007
The Real Risks From Power Plants

Last week at an Arizona nuclear plant, guards, who are required to search every vehicle that enters the grounds, detained an employee at a checkpoint 1.5 miles from the plant when a five-inch long improvised pipe bomb was found in his truck. The news media kept referring to the pipe bomb as a scary threat and speculating on various deadly but impossible scenarios. But did this incident reveal how vulnerable our nuclear plants are?