India currently has 21 nuclear power reactors in operation, generating around three percent of the country’s total electricity. To meet the increasing demands of a rising economy, India is expanding its nuclear energy grid from today's 5780 MW of energy to generate 20,000MWe by 2020. While the...

Russia currently has the world's third largest fleet of nuclear power plants with 33 reactors in operation. To supply the country's growing energy demand, Russia plans to double its nuclear energy output by 2035 with ten reactors currently under construction and a number of existing ones being...

We employ a two-tier spatiotemporal analysis to investigate whether uranium operations cause armed conflict in Africa. The macrolevel analysis suggests that - compared to the baseline conflict risk - uranium ventures increase the risk of intrastate conflict by 10 percent. However, we find ethnic...