Author: Fission Today

New Jersey-based Thea Energy has unveiled the preconceptual design of Helios, its stellarator-based fusion power… Source link

Evergy is proposing to the KCC, two fossil gas plants in Reno and Sumner County with a price tag of $2 Billion Dollars – leaving Kansans with the bill. Tell the KCC we don’t want dirty gas! Evergy is a for-profit monopoly which means it has no free-market competition to provide us – the rate payers – the best and most affordable sources of electricity. We have no choice but to be Evergy customers for electricity. So Evergy does not have to earn our business, but it does earn a profit from us. Read the Evergy docket number: 25-EKCE-207-PRE Profits…

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Energy Sector Under AttackOn February 24, 2022, at exactly 00:00, Ukraine began a critical “island energy mode” test— temporarily disconnecting from the Russian and European power grids as part of requirement and plan to join to ENTSO-E (European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity). And after that, just three hours later, the first missiles struck. Ukraine’s energy infrastructure became a primary target.In 2024 alone, more than 1,100 missiles and thousands of heavy drones targeted energy infrastructure across the country. Substations connecting regions were destroyed, cutting off energy flows and fragmenting the national grid. Entire regions were left with either…

This is a follow up to my previous blog post on the California Supreme Court’s Opinion that remitted the Center for Biological Diversity v. CPUC (A167721; S283614) to the 1st Appellate District. With supplemental and responsive briefing filed on November 21, 2025 and supplemental responsive briefing due on January 12, 2026, many questions remain related to net billing tariff (NBT) and how it will shape future cases involving a less deferential judicial review standard when CPUC actions are challenged under Public Utilities Code §§ 1757 and 1757.1. This post will look at two potential inquiries the Court of Appeals may…

This article may be updated.Nuno Loureiro, a professor of nuclear science and engineering and of physics at MIT, has died. He was 47.A lauded theoretical physicist and fusion scientist, and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Loureiro joined MIT’s faculty in 2016. His research addressed complex problems lurking at the center of fusion vacuum chambers and at the edges of the universe.Loureiro’s research at MIT advanced scientists’ understanding of plasma behavior, including turbulence, and uncovered the physics behind astronomical phenomena like solar flares. He was the Herman Feshbach (1942) Professor of Physics at MIT and was named…

The Experimental Breeder Reactor II at Idaho National Laboratory. Several companies are now pursuing experimental reactor designs in the hopes of upending the nuclear power industry. Idaho National Laboratory hide caption toggle caption Idaho National Laboratory In May, President Trump sat in the Oval Office flanked by executives from America’s nuclear power industry. “It’s a hot industry. It’s a brilliant industry,” the president said from behind the Resolute desk. It’s also an industry that’s having a moment. Billions of dollars in capital are currently flowing into dozens of companies chasing new kinds of nuclear technologies. These are small modular designs…

How long will the American Moronocracy last in the New Year? Noel Wauchope, 15 Dec 25, https://theaimn.net/how-long-will-the-american-moronocracy-last-in-the-new-year/It’s hard to grab hold of the idea – of which of the morons in the USA administration will crack first? I think that it has to be Pete Hegseth, the Minister for War. Perhaps “crack” is not the appropriate word. “Be thrown under the bus” might be more accurate. The immediate problem is the rather gripping thought – of the vision of injured fishermen hanging desperately onto the debris, the wreckage, of their bombed boat. And then getting bombed again, and killled. Now, apparently,…

Fallout is based on a hugely successful video game series known for blending a sardonic, very dark comedic sensibility, and violence. The series is set in the game’s post-apocalyptic world – an America divided into factions wrestling for control of an irradiated wasteland. When the hopeful Lucy (Ella Purnell) steps out of the comfortable life she’s known in an underground vault, the world she’s confronted with is harsh, brutal, merciless – and kinda funny. Fallout just returned for a second season on Prime Video, so today we’re revisiting our conversation about the show. Source link

What if there were a way to solve one of the most significant obstacles to the use of nuclear energy — the disposal of high-level nuclear waste (HLW)? Dauren Sarsenbayev, a third-year doctoral student at the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), is addressing the challenge as part of his research.Sarsenbayev focuses on one of the primary problems related to HLW: decay heat released by radioactive waste. The basic premise of his solution is to extract the heat from spent fuel, which simultaneously takes care of two objectives: gaining more energy from an existing carbon-free resource while decreasing the…