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MATTHEW YGLESIAS, SLOW BORING: The Case for Clean Energy Abundance

MATT BOWEN, RAMA T. PONANGI & DR. RICHARD A. MESERVE; CENTER ON GLOBAL ENERGY POLICY: Improving the Efficiency of NRC Power Reactor Licensing: ACRS Reviews

NICK LORIS, NATIONAL INTEREST: A New Regulatory Paradigm for Advanced Nuclear Energy

JANE NAKANO & YU-HSUAN YEH, CSIS: China’s Nuclear Energy Priorities Under Its 15th Five-Year Plan

DANIEL JOYNER, NATIONAL INTEREST: The Regulatory Pathway Puzzle in Advanced Nuclear Energy

VINCENT IALENTI, BULLETIN OF ATOMIC SCIENTISTS: Will the Trump Administration’s ‘Nuclear Campus’ Plan Break the US Nuclear Waste Gridlock?

JACK ANDREASEN CAVANAUGH, LATITUDE MEDIA: Climate Tech Can’t Scale on Corporate Generosity Alone

JUSTIN E. DRISCOLL, LOHUD: New York Needs Nuclear. Just Look at Our Stretched Grid

ROBERT BRYCE, SUBSTACK: Rage Against The Data Center

APPLIED ATOMICS, UTILITY DIVE: Nuclear Power on a Faster Timeline is Possible. Here is How Utilities Can Make It Work.

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NextEra, Dominion Announce Merger to Create U.S. Power Behemoth

People, Politics:

The Race to Develop American-Made Nuclear Fuel

AI Could Make Power Grid More Efficient — If Utilities Can Persuade Regulators

Wisconsin’s Kewaunee County on the Cusp of a Nuclear Power Revival

Texas Nuclear Boom Faces Worker Shortage as AI Drives Demand

Small Nuclear Power Projects Will Be Subject of 2 Public Meetings in Virginia’s Wise County

NY Nuclear Operator Will Seek Site Approval for New Nuke Plant in Oswego County

Kalamazoo Leaders Rally Against Palisades Nuclear Plant Restart

Data Center Industry Ramps Up Pushback on Cost Claims

DOE Exceeded Its Authority with Coal Retirement Delay, States Tell Appeals Court

Breakthrough Institute Statement on the Build Nuclear with Local Materials Act

Senate Panel Takes Up More Bills to Bolster Nuclear

The Texas-Size Fight Over Rick Perry’s Nuclear Power Startup

A Nuclear Power Future Has Bipartisan Backing in Kentucky. But Not Everyone is Sold.

US Federal Funds Awarded to Spur SMR Deployment

The Rise of the State Transmission Authority

‘We Need to Preserve & Rapidly Expand Nuclear Capacity’: Capito Stresses Importance of Nuclear Power

Kelly, Lummis, Donalds Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Cut Nuclear Construction Costs and Speed Up New Energy Projects

NRC Reviews Indiana’s Bid to Become 41st Agreement State

NRC Commissioners Talk Attrition, Recruitment, Retention at Senate Hearing

Getting Back to Yes: A Local Perspective on Decommissioning, Restart, and Responsibility

Energy Department Awards $94 Million to American Companies to Help Expedite the Deployments of Small Modular Reactors in the United States

Lawmakers Seek Concrete Solution to Nuclear Cost Overruns

GAO Report: Nuclear Cleanup Costs Continue to Spiral as Deferred Maintenance and Repair Needs Grow

State of the Nuclear Industry 2026: Korsnick Says the Real Test Is Now Scale

Video: Making New Nuclear Fuel for an Atomic Renaissance

Business, Technology:

X-energy Gets Federal Environmental Approval for Texas Nuclear Reactors

NRC Issues Environmental Assessment with Finding of No Significant Impact for Dow and X-energy’s Propsed Advanced Nuclear Project in Texas

NRC Clears Long Mott’s Environmental Review on a Faster Path—Another Milestone for Commercial Advanced Nuclear

NRC Beats Schedule for Completing Long Mott Environmental Review

Constellation Launches Nuclear Plant Upgrades to Meet Rising Demand

Are Data Centers Driving Up Electricity Rates? A New E3 Whitepaper Examines the Quantitative Evidence

Preliminary White Safety Finding at Comanche Peak Prompts NRC Conference

Idaho National Laboratory Opens Structural Properties Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear Research

EIA: Commercial Electricity Use Will Likely Surpass Residential in 2027

US Firm’s 240 MWe Nuclear Reactor with First Closed-Fuel-Cycle Gets New Deal Boost

NRC Posts Cooper’s Subsequent License Renewal Application

FERC Weighs Federal Oversight of AI Data Center Grid Connections

L3Harris Finalizes Design of Deep Space Power Source

Goldman Adds SMRs to Nuclear Model, Sees 17% Upside in Uranium Demand

MIDA Loans Itself $16.5M to Prep Site for Uranium Enrichment Equipment Facility

CLIMATE:

The Quest for Clean Hydrogen Moves Underground

Can Some Very Tiny Particles Cool the Planet? One Tech Company Says Yes.

200,000 Californians Create as Much Power as a Nuclear Plant to Help the Grid. Now That’s Up in the Air

Report: The State of the Global Clean Energy Supply Chain and Deployment

‘The Only Thing That Terrifies Me is BYD’: Politicians Quake at Chinese EVs

Trump-Xi Summit Raises Terrifying Prospect for US and Europe: Chinese Cars

Trump’s Crackdown on China-Linked Solar Firms Stalls U.S. Factory Boom

New Signs Iran War is Boosting Clean Energy

Microsoft May Abandon Its Clean Energy Powered Data Centre Targets

Trump’s Renewable Energy Crackdown Hits Legal Wall

Dominion to Open Nation’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Next Year

Hard Choices Test Breakaway Climate Summit

Where Did All the Solar Go?

Climate Finance Funds Attract Record Inflows in ‘Feast or Famine’ Year

2 More Offshore Wind Projects Scrapped Under Trump Administration Pressure

International:

Blykalla Submits Historic Application for Sweden’s First Commercial Advanced Reactor Park

UAE Restores Power to Barakah Nuclear Plant After Drone Strike, Says IAEA

Poland’s Nuclear Program: A Model for Energy Independence Through Strategic Localization

Russia and Indonesia Advance Talks on Nuclear Power Projects and Infrastructure

UAE Nuclear Power Plant Targeted in Likely-Iranian Attack

Drone Strikes UAE Nuclear Plant as US and Iran Signal They Are Prepared to Resume War

Another Blow for Energoatom: Key US Nuclear Veteran Exits as Reform Drive Falters

Contest Launched to Name UK’s First SMR Plant

Small Modular Reactors ‘A Catalyst’ For Increased Nuclear Interest In Africa

Nuclear Power in Africa: Opportunities for the Future

India’s Tarapur Unit 2 Cleared for 10-Year Extension After Major Safety Overhaul

Russia Makes First 175 MW Output Reactor Unit to Power Leningrad Nuclear Icebreaker

Russian Ship That Sank Near Spain in 2024 May Have Carried Nuclear Reactor Parts

Switzerland Says Nuclear Plants Can Run Profitably for Up to 80 Years

Belgium and the Netherlands to Enhance Nuclear Cooperation

Italy Moves to Reintroduce Nuclear Power With New Legislative Framework

Southeast Asia Could Become Major Growth Region For Nuclear, Says Rosatom Boss

Kazakhstan to Ban Storage of Foreign Radioactive Waste

NuScale Power’s SMR Project Eyed in South Korea’s $200B US Investment Package

Government Overhauls Nuclear Export System to Prevent KEPCO-KHNP Conflicts

US, UK, and IAEA Coordinate Fast-Track Removal of Nuclear Fuel From Venezuela

India’s Tata Power CEO Confirms Interest in Small Modular Reactors

Belgium and the Netherlands Sign Pact to Deepen Nuclear Energy Cooperation

Framatome and Czech Research Centre Partner to Develop Innovative Reactor Fuels

Ukraine’s Energoatom Supervisory Board Sets Out ‘Merit-Based CEO Selection Process’

India to Shrink Zones Around Nuclear Reactors to Free Up Land, Sources Say

Indian Reactor Set to Restart as Private Sector Plans Progress

India’s NTPC to Submit First Nuclear Project Feasibility Study

Gradual Restart Begins of Upgraded World’s Largest Tokamak in Japan

Swiss Researchers Provide First High-Resolution Data for Small Modular Reactor Cooling

Fuel Loading Completed at Bangladesh’s First Nuclear Power Plant

US Removes All Enriched Uranium from Venezuela Reactor, Ships Materials to SC in Major Nuclear Security Op