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(Note: Original Draft was updated and edited on 3/10/26 and 3/11/26) On March 9, 2026, the First Appellate District affirmed in full the CPUC’s D.22-12-026 decision in Center for Biological Diversity v. Public Utilities Commission (Case No. A167721). The First Appellate District original opinion affirming the CPUC decision was appealed to the California Supreme Court, which issued an opinion  in August 2025 not on the questions specific to the CPUC’s action on NEM 3.0’s net billing tariff and related matters (See CPUC D. 22-12-056; See Proceeding Docket for R. 20-08-020), but on how appellate courts are to apply the judicial…

‘Punching them while they’re down’: US & Israel bomb Iran’s schools & hospitals, with ‘no stupid rules of engagement’ Hegseth bragged that the US is fighting with “no stupid rules of engagement”. By his admission, the Pentagon is purposefully targeting civilian areas, and does not care about the rules of war. The US & Israel bombed 20 schools & 13 hospitals in Iran in 1 week. War Secretary Pete Hegseth boasted of unleashing “death and destruction” to provoke collapse, with “no stupid rules of engagement”. Ben Norton, Mar 09, 2026 The United States and Israel are intentionally devastating civilian areas…

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on March 4 authorized staff to issue a construction permit for TerraPower’s Kemmerer Power Station Unit 1 in Kemmerer, Wyoming—the first commercial reactor the agency has approved for construction in nearly a decade, and the first approval for a commercial non–light water reactor design in more than 40 years. The permit was issued to US SFR Owner LLC (USO), a wholly owned TerraPower subsidiary, which filed the application in March 2024, requesting authorization to build the hybrid sodium-cooled advanced reactor on a site near PacifiCorp’s retiring Naughton coal plant in Kemmerer. NRC staff accepted the…

DOE to Make Mixed Oxide Fuel at Savanah River Site to Boost HALEU Supplies SRNL to Recover Isotopes from Legacy Nuclear Materials Q&A Interview with ZetaJoule About its High Temperature Research Reactor ONE Nuclear Energy  IPO plans to Fund SMR Expected in 2026 Copenhagen Atomics Secures Thorium Supply from Norway DOE to Make MOX Fuel at SRS DOE’s Office of Environmental Management Restarts One-of-a-Kind Facility in South Carolina to Fuel America’s Nuclear Future The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) announced the decision to restart HB-Line operations at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina.…

I have been busy this summer (and spring, and the winter before that… and the fall before that… and the summer before that…), but one of the things I’ve been busy with has finally launched: Doomsday Machines, a new blog dedicated to exploring the post-apocalyptic imagination from several different perspectives. It will include discussions of post-apocalyptic media, documents that shed light on how governments thought and think about the end of the world, and explorations of the task of creating practical “models” for what the end of the world could look like. Among other exciting things. If you’re interested in…

French President Macron has announced that France will increase its nuclear arsenal at a speech today at the naval port hosting French nuclear armed submarines. He also said the new French nuclear doctrine could “provide for the temporary deployment of elements of our strategic air forces to allied countries,” though affirmed that control over the weapons would remain in French hands. In a joint declaration issued today, President Macron and Chancellor Merz have agreed to increase French-German cooperation, including “German conventional participation in French nuclear exercises and joint visits to strategic sites” and “consultations regarding the appropriate mix of conventional,…

Going Native in the Trump Jungle: How it became Legal to Attack Iran 3 March 2026 Dr Binoy Kampmark , The allies of the United States have gone native, feral even, in the jungle of international relations planted by President Donald J. Trump. While we keep hearing about how awful Russia’s war against Ukraine is, with its shattering of international law and its dismissiveness of the provisions of the United Nations Charter, the Israeli-US attack on Iran has been given the seal of approval by America’s client states and supporters. Countries such as the UK, France, Germany, Australia and Canada, for instance, were…

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No recent US administration has gone as far as the current one in trying to put the US nuclear sector back on its feet again. President Trump has made nuclear energy a top priority and pursued an aggressive, hands-on programme to accelerate deployment of advanced reactors, build domestic fuel capability and reshape the institutions that license and oversee the industry. But all of this and billions in subsidies are unlikely to revive the moribund industry. Paul Hockenos reports. Credits: SkazovD | Shutterstock, All rights deserved. The potential of nuclear power is one of the few things that US politicians on…