The following selection of Web sites has been organized into four categories to help citizens learn more about both sides of this complex issue.

Anti-Nuclear Power
Educational Tools
Government Agencies
Pro-Nuclear Power

Anti-Nuclear Power

Downwinders
Downwinders is a research and educational foundation established in 1978 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Downwinders takes its name from the residents living in the prevailing wind pattern surrounding the Nevada Test Site, and who have been constantly exposed to radioactive fallout from America's nuclear testing activities conducted there.

National Resources Defense Council
This organization uses law, science, and the support of more than 500,000 members nationwide to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.

Nuclear Information and Resource Service
This information and networking center for citizens and environmental organizations is concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation, and sustainable energy issues.

Public Citizen: Critical Mass Energy Project and Environment Program
A powerful voice in the movement to decrease reliance on nuclear and fossil fuels, Critical Mass promotes safe, economical, and environmentally sound energy use through conservation and renewable sources. Critical Mass prepares and disseminates reports, lobbies Congress, and acts as a watchdog of key federal and state energy regulatory agencies.

STAR Foundation - Stand for Truth About Radiation
This grassroots organization is concerned about the toxic effects of nuclear radiation. STAR promotes public awareness, medical and scientific investigation, institutional accountability, independent oversight, and responsible public health and environmental policies. STAR actively promotes alternative and renewable energy technologies as the available solution to nuclear generated power.

Utah's Nuclear Past
This essay chronicles Utah's history with nuclear testing, and one woman's experiences with its effects.

Educational Tools

American Experience: Meltdown at Three Mile Island
This site provides a history of the accident at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. It includes maps, a timeline, people who played key roles in the event, and a teachers guide.

Frontline: Blackout
Frontline and The New York Times join forces to investigate the story behind the California energy crisis. Correspondent Lowell Bergman goes head to head with energy industry CEOs and state and federal officials to uncover what's at the heart of the growing energy crisis, and who's profiting.

Frontline: Nuclear Reaction
Frontline correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes looks at what has derailed nuclear power in the United States and at the differing national attitudes toward nuclear power.

History of Nuclear Power Plant Safety
This timeline presents a chronology of nuclear safety research and development from the 1940s to the present day. It details the development of safety features, practices and systems in nuclear power plants.

How Stuff Works: Nuclear Power Plants
This site gives an illustrated tutorial on nuclear power, nuclear fission and nuclear power plants with photos and animations.

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
This site provides informative fact sheets about nuclear energy and radioactive waste, as well as a wide range of publications and useful links.

Monticello Generating Plant
This site offers a virtual tour of the Monticello nuclear power facility in Minnesota.

Nuclear Energy Guide
This visual guide allows viewers to learn about nuclear concepts including nuclear fission, nuclear power and nuclear accidents. It also allows viewers to listen to both sides of a nuclear argument so that they may begin to decide if we should depend on nuclear energy or be free of nuclear energy in our world.

Nuclear Tourist
This comprehensive site includes a wealth of information about nuclear power, nuclear waste and nuclear actions. It also includes virtual tours of nuclear power plants around the world.

The Nuclear Files
This site provides extensive information on nuclear weapons and nuclear war. The document archive includes the discovery of nuclear power, Manhattan Project, bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, hydrogen bomb, Oppenheimer hearings, nuclear weapons and energy, subcritical nuclear weapons tests, treaties and arms control.

Nuclear History Site
This site discusses the history of nuclear energy in the United States, both for military and civilian purposes. It offers background information on nuclear waste, nuclear power, radiation, reactors and safety to allow a fuller understanding of the issues involved in nuclear energy.

Nuclear Power Plant Demonstration
In this interactive online demonstration, viewers play the role of a control-room operator at Sweden's Kärnobyl nuclear power plant, trying to keep the reactor running safely under various failure scenarios.

Online NewsHour: Energy and the Environment
This special report covers the latest news on energy issues and the environment, including nuclear power, conservation and renewable resources, drilling for oil, and global warming.

RadWaste
This site offers a complete, unbiased guide of radioactive waste resources.

Three Mile Island Alert
This interactive site gives viewers the opportunity to learn about the accident and the current problems at Three Mile Island by operating a virtual control room.

Government Agencies

International Atomic Energy Agency
The IAEA serves as the world's central inter-governmental forum for scientific and technical cooperation in the nuclear field.

International Nuclear Safety Center
This government agency operates under the U.S. Department of Energy and strives to improve nuclear power reactor safety worldwide.

US Environmental Protection Agency
The Radiation Protection Division's mission is to protect our nation's people and environment from harmful exposure to radiation.

US Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board
This independent agency of the US Government provides independent scientific and technical oversight of the US program for management and disposal of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel from civilian nuclear power plants.

Pro-Nuclear Power

American Nuclear Society
The American Nuclear Society (ANS) is a nonprofit, international, scientific and educational organization. It was established by a group of individuals who recognized the need to unify the professional activities within the diverse fields of nuclear science and technology.

The Nuclear Energy Agency
The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) assists its member countries, including the United States, in maintaining and further developing, the scientific, technological and legal bases required for a safe, environmentally friendly and economical use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.

The Nuclear Energy Institute
The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) is a nonprofit association that stays abreast of the latest regulatory and Congressional activities involving nuclear power, such as the ongoing questions of where to store spent fuel. NEI’s objective is to ensure the formation of policies that promote the beneficial uses of nuclear energy and technologies in the United States and around the world.

Private Fuel Storage, LLC
PFS is a Delaware company formed by eight of the nation's largest public utilities to serve as a project managing company for a temporary storage site for radioactive waste. Their Web site outlines the company's arguments.