Nuclear Monitor #776: The nuclear renaissance is stone cold dead

October 26, 2026
READ MORE AND TAKE ACTION NOW BEFORE NOV. 4! Comment here by NOV. 4: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/NRC-2025-1568-0002?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=b97516f7-db69-47a5-afb7-e316c0af2198 Read the NIRS Action Email: https://nirs.salsalabs.org/2025-1568exemptions Radioactive waste does not belong in baby toys, frying pans, garden soil, jewelry, roads, cars, building supplies—or our everyday household items. But the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is moving to exempt hundreds of radioactive…

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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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