Author: Fission Today

A year after President Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 14300 directing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to cut red tape and speed nuclear deployment, the agency is claiming a string of historic firsts, a backlog of rules in motion at unprecedented scale, and an internal reorganization due to take effect next month. In a news release marking the anniversary, the NRC tallied milestones it says are reshaping U.S. nuclear regulation for the first time in nearly half a century. Among them, the first commercial advanced reactor construction permit in decades, granted to TerraPower’s Kemmerer facility in Wyoming; the first-ever license…

Six of Ohio’s largest investor-owned electric and gas utilities contributed more than $2 million to the Republican Governors Association and Democratic Governors Association since January of last year, in an election cycle where Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton have both campaigned on lowering energy bills for Ohioans if elected as governor.  The six utilities are American Electric Power, AES, CenterPoint, Duke Energy, NiSource, and Vistra Corp. The Energy and Policy Institute reviewed contributions the utilities made to DGA and RGA using ProPublica’s 527 Explorer for this analysis.  Ninety-four percent of Ohio voters view energy costs as an extremely…

DOE Awards $94 Million for Light Water SMRs NRC Approves Framatome, Richland, WA, for HALEU Fuel Fabrication Lightbridge and Studsvik Partner on Software for Light Water Reactors AtkinsRéalis Signs as EPC for First American Nuclear Fast Spectrum SMR X-energy, Amazon, South Korean Firms Partner for AI Infrastructure Oklo Partners with Idaho Lab for AI Application L3Harris Completes Design of Deep Space Power Source UKAEA and Stellarex Energy Partner for Fusion Power Key Investments and Cooperation at the Three Seas Initiative Summit DOE Awards $94 Million for Light Water SMRs The U.S. Department of Energy announced the selection of eight companies…

The new Don’t Bank on the Bomb analysis finds 301 financial institutions made more than $1 trillion available to the nuclear weapons industry in 2025.  In the last few years, overwhelming pressure from the defence sector and government officials have encouraged the financial industry to provide more loans and corporate financing, without considering whether those arms companies are involved in the production, maintenance and development of nuclear weapons. The new Don’t Bank on the Bomb report shows that this pressure is having an impact- and 41 more investors are now seeking to profit from the push for global rearmament. ICAN’s…

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From “Mission Accomplished” to Missile Shortages: The Iran War Narrative Unravels.  May 12, 2026, Joshua Scheer, Ben Norton dismantles the triumphalist rhetoric surrounding the U.S. war on Iran in this blistering breakdown of a conflict that appears far more costly — and far less successful — than Washington admits. Drawing on reporting from CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC News, and Fortune, Norton argues that despite Donald Trump’s repeated claims of “victory,” Iran has inflicted extensive damage on U.S. military infrastructure across West Asia while preserving much of its missile capability. The video traces the widening economic, military,…

In the quiet scrubland of Waynesboro, Georgia, two enormous concrete domes rise from the landscape. Vogtle Units 3 and 4, the first new nuclear reactors built in the US in more than 30 years, were once touted as the rebirth of US American nuclear ambition. Instead, they have become a monument to mismanagement and cost overruns – conclusive evidence that nuclear power is a nonstarter. Paul Hockenos reports. Credits Denton Rumsey | Shutterstock, all rights reserved. The story of Vogtle is a cautionary tale illustrating that nuclear power cannot be delivered cheaply, quickly and reliably in democratic societies with up-to-scratch…

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How industrial middleware unlocks the full value of operational data AI and why most AI programs fail without it   Power companies are being asked to deliver higher reliability while their operating environment becomes more dynamic. Conventional power generation: must run with greater flexibility, grid assets must absorb new load patterns, renewable portfolios must operate as dependable capacity, and storage systems must be monitored as mission-critical infrastructure. The primary challenge is not a lack of data, but the challenge of data fragmentation. Enter industrial middleware that can better connect OT and IT systems and data, replacing fragmentation with normalized data…

Three Republican candidates fighting for two open District 1 and District 5 seats on the Louisiana Public Service Commission this year received substantial support from PSC-regulated entities or organizations, PACs or businesses with ties to those enterprises, according to an Energy and Policy Institute review of campaign finance filings for candidates participating in the Louisiana primary elections from January 1, 2025 to April 16, 2026. Republican candidate Stephanie Hilferty, D-1, received 50 percent of her contributions from PSC regulated entities or people or entities associated with them, primarily lawyers associated with utilities and lobbying firms whose clients include oil and…