Research

Publications

Reports, policy analyses, and peer-reviewed research on nuclear energy and regulatory policy.

2026

Automation Bias in AI

Adam Stein - PSAM18

Research2026

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

Adam Stein, Spencer Toohill - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2026

Mapping America's Nuclear Potential

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2026

Modernizing California's Nuclear Policy: Support for AB 2647

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2026

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

Adam Stein, PJ Seel - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Commentary2026

Part 53: A Viable Licensing Pathway for New Reactors

Adam Stein, Spencer Toohill - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2026

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

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2026

Part 57 Should Be Built for High-Volume Licensing

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2026

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

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2026

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

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Report2025

Abundant Fuel for Abundant Reactors

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

Report2025

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

Adam Stein, PJ Seel - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2025

Estimation of Cost Reductions From Risk Informed Radiation Standards

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

Research2025

How To Regulate Radiation Exposure

Adam Stein, PJ Seel - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2025

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

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2025

Making DOE's Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program Work

Adam Stein, Spencer Toohill - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2025

The NRC's Problem Isn't Caution. It's Architecture.

Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Commentary2025

Stakeholder Consensus on Proposed Part 53 Major Topics

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2025

The Current State of Radiation Protection in the United States

Adam Stein, PJ Seel - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2025

Understanding the NRC Independence Debate

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2025

Accelerating Commercialization Through Incentivizing On-Time Nuclear (ACTION)

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

Policy2024

BTI's Innovative Vision for NRC Modernization

Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2024

Improving Nuclear Regulatory Commission Public Engagement

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2024

Meta-Analysis of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Cost Estimations

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

Report2024

Will Risk Aversion At The NRC Avert The Energy Transition?

Stein, Danish - Environmental Law Reporter

Research2024

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Charts a Path Forward on Part 53

Adam Stein, Leigh Anne Lloveras - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2024

Rethinking Uncontested Mandatory Hearings at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Adam Stein, Leigh Anne Lloveras - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2024

Updated Mining Footprints and Raw Material Needs for Clean Energy

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Research2024

Will Risk Aversion at the NRC Avert the Energy Transition?

Adam Stein - Environmental Law Reporter

Journal2023

Here Comes Fusion: Will the Regulators Be Ready?

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Research2023

History of the U.S. Uranium Industry

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2023

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

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Policy2023

Regulatory Rush Job Will Be a Disaster for Advanced Nuclear Energy

Adam Stein - The Hill

Commentary2023

Will Washington Stop the Global Renaissance of Nuclear Power?

Adam Stein, Ted Nordhaus - Foreign Policy

Commentary2022

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

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

Report2022

California Needs to Keep Diablo Canyon Power Plant Running

Adam Stein, Alex - CalMatters

Commentary2022

Energy Security and Decarbonization in Response to Russian Aggression

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Report2022

Quantitative Health Objectives in a Performance-Based Regulation

Adam Stein - The Breakthrough Institute

Research2021

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

Adam Stein - The Hill

Commentary2021

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

Adam Stein - The Well News

Commentary