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Federal energy regulators voted yesterday to keep in place accounting rules that allow monopoly utilities to charge customers for trade association activities, including political advocacy. The decision rejects calls to reform accounting rules and protect customers from footing the bill for these expenses.  The move comes as state regulators and lawmakers across the country have increasingly acted to block these costs from state-overseen retail rates – saving customers millions of dollars. Federal regulators could have done the same for federal wholesale transmission rates. Instead, they chose to maintain the status quo, allowing utilities to continue passing these expenses to customers.…

The American Physical Society (APS) recently honored two MIT faculty members — professors Yoel Fink PhD ’00 and Mehran Kardar PhD ’83 — as well as six alumni with prizes and awards for their contributions to physics and academic leadership.In addition, several MIT faculty members — Professor Jorn Dunkel, Professor Yen-Jie Lee PhD ’11, Associate Professor Mingda Li PhD ’15, and Associate Professor Julien Tailleur — as well as 12 additional alumni were named APS Fellows.Yoel Fink PhD ’00, the Danae and Vasilis (1961) Salapatas Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, received the Andrei Sakharov Prize “for defending the…

Harnessing Fusion for Lifesaving Medicine: The Journey of Mo-99 SHINE Set for $263 Million DOE Loan for Its Fusion Technology Avalanche Energy Awarded $5.2M DARPA Contract for Fusion Tech ARPA-E Announces $135 Million for Fusion Technology Program New UK Strategy for Nuclear Fusion Adds $266 Million to $2.5 billion Fusion Strategy Harnessing Fusion for Lifesaving Medicine: The Journey of Mo-99 Shine Technologies Fusion System will produce Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), the parent isotope of the most widely used diagnostic tool in nuclear medicine. Harnessing Fusion for Lifesaving Medicine: The Journey of Mo-99 While nuclear fusion is often discussed as a future source…

Drill deep and drill differently. That’s what’s needed to exploit the nearly bottomless promise of geothermal energy in the United States and around the globe, according to participants at the 2026 Spring Symposium, titled “Next-generation geothermal energy for firm power.” Sponsored by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), the March 4 event drew 120 people, including MIT faculty and students, investors, and representatives from startups, multinational energy companies, and zero-carbon advocacy groups.“The time feels right to pull together good policy, great corporate partners, and the research and technological innovations … to make significant advances in the widespread utilization of this incredible resource,”…

As the shaky ceasefire continues in the Middle East, the US and Iran are preparing for talks in Pakistan this weekend, with US Vice President JD Vance set to lead the US delegation. Iran’s enriched uranium will be the sticking point, with the US refusing to acknowledge enrichment as a part of Iran’s 10-point plan for a permanent ceasefire. So what will happen to Iran’s nuclear program?  Interview with Melissa Parke, Executive Director, ICAN Listen to the interview on ABC Source link

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A special class of sensors leverages quantum properties to measure tiny signals at levels that would be impossible using classical sensors alone. Such quantum sensors are currently being used to study the inner workings of cells and the outer depths of our universe.Particularly promising are solid-state quantum sensors, which can operate at room temperature. Unfortunately, most solid-state quantum sensors today only measure one physical quantity at a time — such as the magnetic field, temperature, or strain in a material. Trying to measure both the magnetic field and temperature of a material at the same time causes their signals to…

Nuclear costs of the Iran War   To create a nuclear disaster, it’s not necessary to directly hit the containment building. Damaging on-site and off-site power necessary for cooling can also have severe repercussions. even reactors in stand-by modes pose radioactive risks in a war zone.  In spite of all this, Director General of the IAEA Grossi promotes rules of the road to help nuclear energy continue operating in warzones. It is a stark reminder that the IAEA’s major mission is to promote nuclear energy, despite the emerging lessons from two “nuclearized” wars. April 11, 2026 by beyondnuclearinternational, Trump’s recent threats to end…

A Florida-based startup intends to build factory-produced nuclear systems designed to fit in shipping containers and run for 30 years without refueling. Here’s how the technology works—and where it stands. The global appetite for electricity is surging. Data centers, industrial electrification, and perhaps a coming wave of humanoid robotics are layering exponential demand onto a grid that was never designed for it. Renewables alone can’t fill the gap, and conventional nuclear, with its decade-long construction timelines and ballooning budgets, moves too slowly. Into that opening steps AMPERA, a Palm Beach Gardens–headquartered company that emerged from stealth in November 2025 with…

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