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January 4, 2018

PSEG Nuclear Subsidy Bill Killed in Lame Duck Session

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January 3, 2018

Germany Shutters Reactor After 33-Year Run

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January 3, 2018

French Greenpeace activists in court for breaking into nuclear plant

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January 3, 2018

Dominion offers to buy SCANA in wake of S.C. nuclear plant failure

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January 2, 2018

After photos of Perry meeting, Bob Murray says he 'never proffered' grid resilience rule to DOE

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January 2, 2018

South Carolina Spent $9 Billion on Nuclear Reactors That Will Never Run. Now What?

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January 2, 2018

Tepco hoping Rugby World Cup can help Fukushima

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January 2, 2018

Trump's NASA Plans Are a Nuclear Disaster Waiting to Happen

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December 22, 2017

Tests reveal crack in key component of Chinese nuclear power plant, 130km west of Hong Kong

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December 22, 2017

Gen. Flynn Goes Nuclear: Reactor Projects, Corruption and the Russia Inquiry

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July 07, 2026
The 4th of July, a time when many Americans celebrate the founding of their country. This year is particularly momentous this year, as it is the 250th year since this country’s founding. Our president wants to celebrate this momentous occasion by starting up (or “going critical”) three untested, unlicensed, unregulated reactors—of course, creating more nuclear…

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April 26, 2026
The Buzz About Chornobyl, 40 Years Later. How Do We Tell the Bees? No, the bees in the Chornobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) are not mutated–in the visual ways we think of–nor are they glow-in-the-dark. They didn’t turn into giant, killer bees, and they don’t light up green at night. But what they did do was…

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January 15, 2026
Meta announced three new deals with nuclear power companies last week, claiming they add up to a massive amount of “clean” energy to power its AI data centers: 6,600 megawatts (MW), equal to six of the new reactors that recently came online in Georgia. Meta claims it will be receiving all of that power from…

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November 19, 2025
One of the biggest challenges facing deregulated states like Maryland, New York, and Illinois is that, while they’ve adopted renewable energy standards and climate policies, they’ve failed to implement meaningful system planning with enforceable requirements for utilities to actually meet those goals. California, by contrast, has taken a much more structured approach. The California Public…

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May 08, 2023
On April 15, 2023 utilities in Germany shut down the country’s three last remaining nuclear power plants. These closures mark the successful planned phase-out of German nuclear energy from the nation’s grid. What does this mean for Germany? What lessons should the U.S. take away from the German energy transition? Germany’s Energiewende (“energy transition”) is an overarching…

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December 13, 2022
NIRS Statement on 12/13/22 DOE Nuclear Fusion Announcement Today, the US Department of Energy announced what scientists consider a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion research. In the DOE’s press release, they celebrate “a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making that will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean…

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