Publications

Bounding Atmospheric Dispersion Factors for Nuclear Facility Siting Without Site Meteorological Data

Adam Stein - engrXiv

Bounding Atmospheric Dispersion Factors from ARCON96

Adam Stein - Zenodo

Automation Bias in AI

Adam Stein - PSAM18

Clarifying the Record on AB 2647: A Technical Response to Opposition Claims

Adam Stein, Spencer Toohill - The Breakthrough Institute

From Paper to Real-Life Reactors: The Holistic View of the Reactor Pilot Program

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Mapping America's Nuclear Potential

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Modernizing California's Nuclear Policy: Support for AB 2647

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

No, the United States Does Not Need a Costly National Cancer Study Near Nuclear Reactors

Adam Stein, PJ Seel - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Commentary 2026

NRC Regulations Must Be Credible, Predictable, Timely, and Proportionate to Risk

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

NRC Rulemaking Tracker

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Nuclear Waste Is a Wicked Problem

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Part 53: A Viable Licensing Pathway for New Reactors

Adam Stein, Spencer Toohill - The Breakthrough Institute

Part 57: Right-Sizing Nuclear Regulation for Low-Consequence Reactors

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Part 57 Should Be Built for High-Volume Licensing

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Sample Size Is Not the Constraint: A Sample-Size-Invariant Bias Wall in Routine Low-Dose Radiation Epidemiology

Adam Stein - Zenodo

Stakeholder Stratification: Risk Fragmentation and Distributed Decision Systems in Infrastructure Deployment

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Report 2026

The Detectability Frontier of Low-Dose Radiation Epidemiology: A Source-Agnostic Floor in the Linear-ERR Framework

Adam Stein - Research Square

Two New Papers Are Wrong About Cancer Risk from Nuclear Plants

Adam Stein, Deric Tilson - The Breakthrough Institute

Why Billions for Uranium Enrichment Still Won't Deliver Nuclear Fuel

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

A Trade War Threatens Your Electricity Bill Too

Adam Stein - Breakthrough Journal

Accelerating Commercialization Through Incentivizing On-Time Nuclear (ACTION)

Adam Stein, Deric Tilson, Yue 'Joy' Jiang, Spencer Toohill - The Breakthrough Institute

Advanced Nuclear Needs Modern Siting Regulations

Adam Stein, Spencer Toohill - The Breakthrough Institute

Abundant Fuel for Abundant Reactors

Lloyd, Stein, Wang, Cook, Wald - The Breakthrough Institute

Report 2025

Can Trump Expedite a Nuclear Renaissance

Adam Stein, Yue 'Joy' Jiang, Spencer Toohill, Deric Tilson - The Breakthrough Institute

Clarifying the Limits of Regulatory Authority Under the Clean Air Act

Adam Stein, Spencer Toohill, Matthew L. Wald - The Breakthrough Institute

Considering Nuclear Energy's Benefit to Society

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Does Nuclear Energy Need the IRA Credits?

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Drawing the Line: The Linear No-Threshold Model, and When are Doses Too Small to Matter?

Adam Stein, PJ Seel - The Breakthrough Institute

Estimation of Cost Reductions From Risk Informed Radiation Standards

Adam Stein, Yue 'Joy' Jiang, Deric Tilson, Spencer Toohill, PJ Seel - The Breakthrough Institute

Research 2025

How To Regulate Radiation Exposure

Adam Stein, PJ Seel - The Breakthrough Institute

Implications for NRC Comprehensive Risk Standards in Part 53 Post Loper Bright Decision

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Making DOE's Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program Work

Adam Stein, Spencer Toohill - The Breakthrough Institute

Maximizing the Use of Available Weather Data to Accelerate Advanced Nuclear Deployment

Adam Stein, Spencer Toohill - The Breakthrough Institute

Opportunities and Uncertainty in America's Nuclear Future

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Orderbooks and Firm Pricing

Adam Stein, Deric Tilson - The Breakthrough Institute

Pathways for New Nuclear Development: Proceedings of a Workshop

David A. Petti; Steven Arndt; Kara Colton; Laura Hermann; Julie Kozeracki; Adam Stein; Aditi Verma - The National Academies Press

Report 2025

Seven More Things You Thought You Knew About Nuclear Energy

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Stakeholder Consensus on Proposed Part 53 Major Topics

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

The Current State of Radiation Protection in the United States

Adam Stein, PJ Seel - The Breakthrough Institute

The United States' Accelerated Race for Nuclear Energy: Demand, Fragmentation, and the Revival of the Atom

Adam Stein - La Vanguardia (Vanguardia Dossier)

Commentary 2025

Understanding the NRC Independence Debate

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

BTI's Innovative Vision for NRC Modernization

Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Improving Nuclear Regulatory Commission Public Engagement

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Meta-Analysis of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Cost Estimations

Abou Jaoude, Lohse, Larsen, Guaita, Trivedi, Joseck, Hoffman, Stauff, Shirvan, Stein - Idaho National Laboratory

Report 2024

Will Risk Aversion At The NRC Avert The Energy Transition?

Stein, Danish - Environmental Law Reporter

Research 2024

NRC Must Risk-Inform Licensing of Uranium Mine Remediation

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Charts a Path Forward on Part 53

Adam Stein, Leigh Anne Lloveras - The Breakthrough Institute

Part 53: Perspective on Rule Development (slides)

Adam Stein - Nuclear Science and Technology Open Research 2:36

Research 2024

Rethinking Uncontested Mandatory Hearings at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Adam Stein, Leigh Anne Lloveras - The Breakthrough Institute

TerraPower Asks the NRC for a Construction Permit

Adam Stein, Leigh Anne Lloveras - The Breakthrough Institute

The Case for Small Reactors

Adam Stein - Breakthrough Journal

Uninformed Nuclear Pessimism

Adam Stein - Breakthrough Journal

Updated Mining Footprints and Raw Material Needs for Clean Energy

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Research 2024

Will Risk Aversion at the NRC Avert the Energy Transition?

Adam Stein - Environmental Law Reporter

Journal 2023

A Milestone for Clean Energy and the NRC

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Advanced Nuclear Energy Is in Trouble

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Congress Gives Nod to Environmental Permitting Reform

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Congress Tries Again on Advanced Nuclear Energy

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Estimation of Near-Field and Far-Field Post-Accident Atmospheric Dispersion for Microreactors

Adam Stein, Rushil Biwalkar, Kenneth Redus, Sola Talabi - Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol. 197

Journal 2023

Here Comes Fusion: Will the Regulators Be Ready?

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Research 2023

History of the U.S. Uranium Industry

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Moving Forward on Emergency Preparedness

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

On the Front Line of Climate Change (Caribbean SMRs)

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Proposal: Mass Acquisition of Early Site Permits for Coal-to-Nuclear Repowering

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Regulatory Rush Job Will Be a Disaster for Advanced Nuclear Energy

Adam Stein - The Hill

Commentary 2023

The Case Against Jeff Baran

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

The Future Is Nuclear Engineers

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

The NRC Comes Through on Diablo Canyon

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

The NRC Commission Should Consider Stakeholder Consensus on Part 53 Major Topics

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Break with Reality (AERI blog and whitepaper)

Adam Stein, Guido Nunez-Mujica, Charlyne Smith - The Breakthrough Institute

Waiting on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Adam Stein, Ted - The Breakthrough Institute

What the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Got Right at Vogtle 3

Adam Stein, Leigh Anne Lloveras - The Breakthrough Institute

Will Washington Stop the Global Renaissance of Nuclear Power?

Adam Stein, Ted Nordhaus - Foreign Policy

Commentary 2022

Advancing Nuclear Energy: Evaluating Deployment, Investment, and Impact in America's Clean Energy Future

Stein, Messinger, Wang, Lloyd, McBride - The Breakthrough Institute

Report 2022

California Needs to Keep Diablo Canyon Power Plant Running

Adam Stein, Alex - CalMatters

Commentary 2022

Can Part 53 Be the Nuclear Licensing Rule We Need?

Adam Stein, Matthew L. Wald - The Breakthrough Institute

Energy Security and Decarbonization in Response to Russian Aggression

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Report 2022

FAQ: Ukraine Nuclear Power Plants

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Global Climate Change Mitigation and the Critical Role of Nuclear Energy

Adam Stein, Danielle Emche - The Breakthrough Institute

NRC Revises Previously Issued Subsequent License Renewal for Existing Nuclear Power Plants

Adam Stein, Rani Franovich - The Breakthrough Institute

NRC Staff Whiffs on Nuclear Licensing Modernization

Adam Stein, Ted Nordhaus - The Breakthrough Institute

Quantitative Health Objectives in a Performance-Based Regulation

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Research 2022

Sign On: Urge the IEA to Make its Data Free and Accessible

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

The Faulty Diablo Canyon Study That Started It All

Adam Stein, Jonah Messinger, Seaver Wang - The Breakthrough Institute

The Inflation Reduction Act - How Does It Impact the Nuclear Energy Industry?

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

The Need for NEM Reforms and the False Argument About the Cost of Diablo Canyon

Adam Stein, Zeke Hausfather - The Breakthrough Institute

An Interdisciplinary Decision Framework for Risk-Based Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Planning and Protective-Action Strategy Selection

Adam Stein - Carnegie Mellon University

Research 2021

Arguments Against the Versatile Test Reactor Undermine America's Energy Innovation

Adam Stein - The Hill

Commentary 2021

At the Doorstep of a Nuclear Energy Revival: Are We Ready?

Adam Stein - The Well News

Commentary 2021

Costs of Closing Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Under the Clean Electricity Performance Program

Adam Stein, Zeke Hausfather, Alex Trembath - The Breakthrough Institute

If California Is Serious about Its Clean Energy Future, Shutting Down Diablo Canyon Needs to Be Reconsidered

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Lessons from NuScale's Design Certification Process

Adam Stein, Sola Talabi - The Breakthrough Institute

The Closure of San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant Increased Emissions in California

Adam Stein, Jameson McBride - The Breakthrough Institute