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Fermilab has announced a wacky shipping plan for a huge magnetic ring used to study subatomic particles. It’s coming to the suburbs of Chicago from Long Island on a 3,200-mile route.

Illinois produces the most nuclear power of any state in the union, and houses some of the most high-tech nuclear research. But does our state have a nuclear future?

Professor John Mearsheimer discusses America's misguided policies concerning Iran.

A look at nuclear energy's past, present, and future starting from the first nuclear chain reaction created at the University of Chicago.

As we mark the one-year anniversary this week of the natural and nuclear disasters in Japan, it seems like a good time to reflect on Chicago’s deep and complicated nuclear history.

Nick Angotti, executive director and co-founder of the Peace on Earth Film Festival, tells Worldview about the origins of the festival.  The festival open today in Chicago.  Also, documentary filmmaker Adam Horowitz discusses his festival entry “Nuclear Savage: The Islands of Secr

I understand the power of Lake Erie wind as soon we’re out past the breakwaters of Cleveland Harbor.