Geoff Brumfiel
Geoff Brumfiel works as a senior editor and correspondent on NPR's science desk. His editing duties include science and space, while his reporting focuses on the intersection of science and national security.
From April of 2016 to September of 2018, Brumfiel served as an editor overseeing basic research and climate science. Prior to that, he worked for three years as a reporter covering physics and space for the network. Brumfiel has carried his microphone into ghost villages created by the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan. He's tracked the journey of highly enriched uranium as it was shipped out of Poland. For a story on how animals drink, he crouched for over an hour and tried to convince his neighbor's cat to lap a bowl of milk.
Before NPR, Brumfiel was based in London as a senior reporter for Nature Magazine from 2007-2013. There, he covered energy, space, climate, and the physical sciences. From 2002 – 2007, Brumfiel was Nature Magazine's Washington Correspondent.
Brumfiel is the 2013 winner of the Association of British Science Writers award for news reporting on the Fukushima nuclear accident.
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Iran's nuclear program has been dealt a blow, here's an overview of the current state of its facilities. -
Reaching Iran's most fortified nuclear enrichment site is a challenge, even for the world's biggest conventional weapons. -
Satellite imagery shows trucks at two key sites the day before the American strikes, suggesting uranium could have been moved. -
If the U.S. does drop a powerful "bunker buster" bomb on a suspected underground nuclear weapons site in Iran, experts in radiation hazards say there is little risk of widespread contamination.
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So far, strikes on Iran's facilities have created limited chemical and radiological hazards. Experts say that's not likely to change even if the U.S. uses a big bomb. -
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says Iran is "marching very quickly" toward a nuclear weapon. The U.S. intelligence community says Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003. -
Christopher Hanson was appointed to serve on the commission overseeing the nation's nuclear reactors during Trump's first term in 2020. -
Early satellite imagery appears to show some damage at Iran's main site. -
Besides its flights to the International Space Station and Starship program, SpaceX is deeply embedded in the Department of Defense. The feud between Elon Musk and President Trump could end all that. -
The relationship breakdown between Elon Musk and the Trump administration could have big implications for Musk's company SpaceX, which the U.S. relies on for space- and defense-related services.
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Several dummy satellites were supposed to be launched, but a door on the ship did not open as planned. -
A series of executive orders aims to promote new kinds of nuclear reactors while restructuring the body in charge of nuclear safety.
