Reports

The Union of Concerned Scientists works to strengthen the federal oversight needed to prevent genetically engineered crops from contaminating our food supply.

Since 9/11, the specter of a terrorist attack at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, thirty-five miles upwind from midtown Manhattan, has caused great concern for residents of the New York metropolitan area.

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) analyzed the costs and benefits of the renewable energy standard as written in Colorado's Amendment 37.

The Union of Concerned Scientists promotes a cleanup strategy for diesel vehicles that includes strict emission standards, incentives for cleaning up existing engines, and replacing or retrofitting older school buses.

UCS is working for a safer world by eliminating risks of nuclear arsenals and nuclear terrorism, improving nuclear plant safety, preventing deployment of anti-satellite and space-based weapons, and enhancing international dialogue on security issues.

Extended Power Uprate (EPU) allows aging nuclear plants to operate at power levels up to 20 percent higher than the plant's originally licensed level.

The ballistic missile defense system that the United States will deploy later this year will have no demonstrated defensive capability and will be ineffective against a real attack by long-range ballistic missiles.

The recent demonstration by the Missile Defense Agency of its missile defense simulation software was a misleading exercise that failed to address key issues about the limitations of computer simulation, especially at this stage of the test program.

Many nuclear facilities fueled with HEU are in academic or industrial settings with inadequate security—attractive targets for terrorists seeking nuclear weapons.

The risks for catastrophe change as nuclear reactors age. Protection schemes must evolve to remain correlated with age if the threat level is to be minimized.