Author: Fission Today

As global electricity demand surges 40% by 2035 and warming projections worsen, nuclear, geothermal, gas, offshore wind, storage, and fusion must all advance—along with the workforce to build them. The global energy landscape is undergoing its most significant transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Electricity demand is surging at unprecedented rates while the imperative to decarbonize intensifies. According to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) World Energy Outlook 2025 (WEO), global electricity demand is projected to reach approximately 37,800 TWh by 2035—a 40% increase from today’s levels. This surge is being driven by electrification across industries, electric mobility, cooling demand, and the…

One Maricopa County, Arizona, landowner appears to have gamed the land-based voting rules of Salt River Project (SRP), the large Arizona electric utility, in a way that enabled him to almost single-handedly decide the outcome of an election for a seat on that utility’s board of governance in 2024.  Public records show that the landowner, Nicholas J. (Nick) Vanderwey, converted almost 240 acres of land from a limited liability corporation (LLC) to a trust, just in time to vote nearly all of the acres associated with those lands in the 2024 election. Acres owned by an LLC are not eligible…

U.S. Tech Park in Israel May Have a Nuclear Power Plant UK is Seeking a Pipeline of Advanced Nuclear Projects Think Tank; Europe Must Show Stronger Policy Support Towards Nuclear U.S. Tech Park in Israel May Have a Nuclear Power Plant Israel signed an agreement with the U.S. on 01/16/26  to build an industrial park to produce advanced computer chips at a location in the Negev desert that would use a small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) to power the factory and nearby data centers also planned for this location. Where things stand now, according to Israel news media, Israel and…

This is just a brief post to make sure I have announced on here formally that my new book from HarperCollins is now on sale! The Most Awful Responsibility: Truman and the Secret Struggle for Control of the Atomic Age (HarperCollins, 2025) is a new and provocative and possibly controversial take on Harry Truman and his role in US atomic policy, from Hiroshima through the Korean War (and everything in between). The research for it took well over a decade, and some of the things I’ve previously written about on this blog regarding Truman have been part of that process. But the book pulls together quite…

Britain courts private cash to fund ‘golden age’ of nuclear-powered AI. SMR trials are on the horizon, but commercial viability is not expected until the 2030s. Things get a little hazy over the question of any financial support. Framework aims to lure investors into powering the compute boom Dan Robinson, Thu 5 Feb 2026, The British government today launched the Advanced Nuclear Framework to attract private investment in next-generation nuclear technology for factories and datacenters. The framework aims to accelerate development of advanced modular reactors to power the AI infrastructure boom and provide [?]clean energy for economic growth. The Department for Energy Security…

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the federal agency responsible for licensing and oversight of civilian nuclear facilities, on Feb. 4 said it would launch a sweeping organizational restructure intended to consolidate decision-making authority, integrate licensing and inspection teams, and align the agency with presidential directives for accelerated nuclear technology deployment. The reorganization will create three core “business lines”—new reactors, operating reactors, and nuclear materials and waste—each of which will integrate licensing and inspection functions “to create a single point of accountability and improve coordination between licensing and inspection teams from the onset of projects,” it said. The NRC also…

In recent years, a number of states have passed laws prohibiting utilities from using money they collect from customers to fund the companies’ political activities and extravagant expenses. Now, ratepayers in these states are already seeing savings in the millions of dollars. Increased savings in CT Recent utility accountability legislation in Connecticut has saved gas and electric customers from footing the bill for nearly $14 million of their utilities’ spending on political influence and advocacy activities and Board of Directors’ perks in the past year. This marks an increase from the previous year, where customers saved over $9.7 million.  The…

DOE Seeks Homes for the Elements of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Standard Nuclear Lands $140 Million in Series A Funding Centrus Plans Expansion of Oak Ridge Centrifuge Plant Oklo Selects Kiewit Nuclear Solutions as EPC for 1st Aurora Nuclear Power Plant INL Spins Up New “Teton” Supercomputer Type One Energy Initiates Licensing of Fusion Power Plant at TVA Site Japan’s Kyoto Fusioneering Partners with Oak Ridge National Laboratory New NIA Report Right-Sizing Reactors New Book : Nuclear Energy: Boom, Bust and Emerging Renaissance Nuclear Scaling Initiative Secures $3.5M to Promote U.S, Reactor Orderbook DOE Seeks Homes for the Elements of…

Photo credit: The White House Today, 4 February 2026, marks the final day of the last remaining nuclear arms control agreement between Russia and the United States which expires tomorrow, 5 February. Learn more about what the Treaty required, why it expired and what the international community can do in response. What did New START do? New START, which was initially agreed in 2010 and extended for five years in 2021, limited U.S. and Russian deployed, strategic nuclear weapon arsenals. There is no agreed definition of what constitutes a “strategic” or “non-strategic” nuclear weapon, but the treaty defines strategic nuclear…

Judge’s gavel, Themis sculpture and collection of legal books on the brown background. (Updated 3/3/26 at 3pm with additional cases) This post is an update on previous posts (here and here) related to the remanded petition for the Center for Biological Diversity v. Public Utilities Commission of the State of California in the First Appellate District (Case No. A167721). There have been several petitions filed against the CPUC since August 2025. For the Center for Biological Diversity v. Public Utilities Commission of the State of California petition the California Supreme Court remanded to the First Appellate District, the docket now…