Stephanie S. Cooke is a journalist who began her reporting career in 1977 at the Associated Press. In 1980 she moved to McGraw-Hill as a reporter for Nucleonics Week, NuclearFuel and Inside N.R.C. In 1984 she transferred to London, and two years later covered the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster for Business Week.[1]
In 2004, Cooke returned to the United States to complete her book In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age. In 2007 she founded the weekly roundup on nuclear power for Energy Intelligence.[2] She later became a proponent of wind and solar as effective alternatives to nuclear power.[3]