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NRC Issues  Construction Permit For TerraPower Reactor in Wyoming TerraPower’s Statement on NRC’s Decision TerraPower’s Natrium Reactor Enters UK GDA Process INL’s NRIC Opens a Launch Pad for Advanced Nuclear Technologies Inertia Raises $450 Million To Build a Fusion Laser Shine Raises $240 Million in New Funding for Fusion Technologies Proxima Fusion To Develop Fusion Power in Bavaria NRC Begins Rulemaking To Establish Fusion Regulatory Framework NRC Issues First Commercial Reactor Construction Approval in 10 Years For TerraPower in Wyoming The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has authorized the staff to issue TerraPower a construction permit for the company’s Kemmerer Power Station…

The city of Kyoto was the only great city of Japan to be spared serious bombing during World War II, despite being among the top targets preferred for the atomic bomb, thanks to the unprecedented and extraordinary efforts by the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, to protect it. I have written at length on this, and why I have come to think that the issue of Kyoto is actually the key to understanding quite a lot about Truman and the bomb, both prior to and after its use. Whenever the issue of Kyoto comes up in popular discussions, however,…

Households and businesses served by investor-owned utilities pay billions of dollars in profits to utility investors each year. Until now, no one has put a precise number on how much of an electric bill is made up of that profit. Using publicly reported financial data, this report provides the first systematic look at how much of each dollar spent on electricity ultimately goes to investors. EPI analyzed financial data from 110 investor-owned operating electric utilities nationwide between 2021 and 2024, including several utilities that bill customers jointly for electric and gas service. We also incorporated 2025 filings for 79 investor-owned…

Curiosity-driven research has long sparked technological transformations. A century ago, curiosity about atoms led to quantum mechanics, and eventually the transistor at the heart of modern computing. Conversely, the steam engine was a practical breakthrough, but it took fundamental research in thermodynamics to fully harness its power. Today, artificial intelligence and science find themselves at a similar inflection point. The current AI revolution has been fueled by decades of research in the mathematical and physical sciences (MPS), which provided the challenging problems, datasets, and insights that made modern AI possible. The 2024 Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry, recognizing foundational AI…

2025 marked 80 years since the first detonation and use of nuclear weapons. Geo-political tensions were on the rise, with pro-nuclear weapons countries increasingly trying to legitimise nuclear weapons and expand their scope in security strategies. It also was the year that the global majority of nations committed to the ultimate rejection of these bombs- the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Source link

(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.…