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Utilities in Nevada are backing Republican Governor Joe Lombardo with their checkbooks in his reelection bid in the 2026 gubernatorial race. No other candidates in the race for Nevada’s next governor received utility contributions this cycle – including Democratic challenger and current Attorney General, Aaron Ford. Southwest Gas and NV Energy give $40,000 to Governor Lombardo and his PAC Lombardo raised significant contributions in the first quarter of 2026, including through his political action committee, Nevada Way. Throughout 2025 and this year to date, the sitting governor received some of NV Energy and Southwest Gas’s highest contributions to any candidate.…

From the 1953 Coup to Today: Jeffrey Sachs Explains America’s Endless War on Iran  April 25, 2026 Joshua Scheer, Jeffrey Sachs doesn’t raise his voice — he doesn’t have to. In this wide‑ranging conversation with Tucker Carlson, Sachs lays out a devastating, historically grounded indictment of U.S. foreign policy, the manufactured “Iran threat,” and the decades‑long fusion of American empire with Israel’s regional ambitions. What emerges is not a hot take but a cold, clinical autopsy of a war machine that has slipped beyond democratic control. From the 1953 coup to the present blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Sachs traces how…

Six MIT affiliates — Denisse Córdova Carrizales SM ’26; Ria Das ’21, MNG ’22; Ronak Desai; Stacy Godfreey-Igwe ’22; Arya Rao; and Ananthan Sadagopan ’24 — have been named 2026 P.D. Soros Fellows. In addition, P.D. Soros Fellow Avinash Vadali will begin a PhD in condensed-matter physics at MIT this fall.The fellowship provides immigrants and the children of immigrants up to $90,000 in tuition and stipend support for up to two years of graduate studies. Interested students should contact Kim Benard, associate dean of distinguished fellowships in Career Advising and Professional Development.Denisse Córdova CarrizalesCórdova Carrizales SM ’26 is a PhD…

A U.S.-based fusion energy company has become the first such firm to apply to join a major power grid operator. Massachusetts-based Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) on April 28 said it has submitted an application to connect its ARC power plant to PJM Interconnection, the nation’s largest wholesale electricity market. CFS on Tuesday said the application marks the first time a fusion power plant developer has requested an interconnection with a power grid operator. PJM serves more than 65 million customers across 13 states and the District of Columbia. CFS, which has raised almost $3 billion in capital since it was…

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Kyiv, Ukraine – Forty years after the Chornobyl disaster spread radioactive contamination across Europe, the risks it exposed have evolved in a world shaped by war, geopolitical tension and more frequent extreme weather, where the vulnerability of nuclear power is abundantly clear. The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine has brought these risks into sharp focus, with nuclear power stations operating in warzones where critical infrastructure is targeted, underscoring the challenges of relying on large, centralised energy systems in an increasingly unstable environment. “Forty years after the start of the Chornobyl disaster, we are still living its consequences. The severe risks…

Air Force Selects Three Microreactors for Base Power NRC Proposes a New Licensing Framework for Microreactors TerraPower Breaks Ground in Wyoming for 345 MW Advanced Reactor Rolls-Royce and Czech CEZ Ink Deal for Nuclear Reactors At Temelín Zeno Power Completes Final Design Review for Space Nuclear Battery Nuclear Fuel Validation Planned by Oklo, LANL and NVIDIA DOE Seeks to Partner with Private Sector for Spent Fuel Recycling Air Force Selects Three Microreactors for Base Power The Department of the Air Force, in conjunction with the Defense Innovation Unit, has selected three companies to potentially develop and operate a microreactor on…

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This is a template that you can adjust, print and bring to your local bank. Or you can cut and paste it into the contact section of your banking app. Find out what banks and other financial institutions have money tied up with the nuclear weapons industry here.  I am writing to you as a concerned customer of your bank, and a concerned citizen.  The continued existence of more than 12,000 nuclear weapons is an affront to humanity and undermines every nation’s security. Any use of these ultimate weapons of mass destruction would have catastrophic, long-term humanitarian and environmental consequences.…

Remembering Chornobyl April 19, 2026  by beyondnuclearinternational, 40 years on we are still asking the wrong questions and getting a lot of wrong answers, writes Linda Pentz Gunter Probably the most heinous crime, other than the avoidable accident itself and its immediate coverup, is the way that the Chornobyl (Ukrainian equivalent spelling) nuclear power disaster in Ukraine, 40 years old this week, has been used to downplay and normalize the long-lasting health impacts caused by that April 26, 1986 explosion. Still today, the myth is repeated that “no one died” — meaning no one in the public. Instead, we are told…