“You have to go see the waste — did you see the waste?” Isabelle Boemeke shouted into the wind, which whipped her long, dark braid behind her as she stood on the California shoreline in San Luis Obispo. The waste in question was the leftover uranium rods from producing nuclear energy, which are stored in...
Angela Harmon and her grandson Leo headed out on a hot day in Dallas, Texas, to a neighborhood store that is run by their church. It’s where they keep cool because running Harmon’s air conditioner at home is more than she can afford. “It’s costly, it’s expensive, and I have to juggle to pay it,” Harmon...
Power demand is surging. New data centers, factories and the electrification of the economy propel a thirst for electricity not seen in decades. Markets are responding but state and local governments have largely been caught off guard. The state blueprint for power demand largely boils down to three approaches: reducing permitting and siting barriers, unleashing...
Earlier this week, two low-carbon cement startups unveiled new partnerships with data-center developers and operators, which are looking at ways to curb the tech sector’s ballooning climate impact. The separate announcements from Sublime Systems and Brimstone are a striking example of how businesses are pressing ahead with efforts to decarbonize essential polluting industries like cement making...
NuScale’s 77-MW module supplanted an earlier 50-MW design the NRC approved in 2023. Some prospective customers had been in a holding pattern as the commission considered NuScale’s application for the uprated module, Hopkins said, adding, “It was accomplished. We’re there.” NuScale Chief Financial Officer Ramsey Hamady said the May approval puts NuScale in a class by...
Proactive work on the ground can make a big difference when it really counts. On July 7, a fierce thunderstorm rolled through southwest Oregon, delivering thousands of lightning strikes that ignited more than 70 wildfires from Ashland to Cave Junction — many in the heart of the Applegate Valley. One of those strikes hit a...
The US’s export of LNG has surged with new projects come online, but it remains unclear whether China which was once seen as a key growth market will be willing to take more of the fuel. More than 100mn tonnes per annum of new LNG capacity is due to start up globally within the next...
Whichever way you cut it, this has been an absolute banner year for nuclear deals in the U.S. It doesn’t much matter the metric — the amount of venture funding flowing to nuclear startups, the number of announcements regarding planned reactor restarts and upgrades, gigawatts of new construction added to the pipeline — it’s basically...
Almost every week seems to bring a new report that plastic is even worse than had been thought for both human and planetary health. This week, it’s a paper in the Lancet that warns of a “grave, growing” danger from the rising tide of the material, and puts its health-related economic costs at more than $1.5 trillion a...
The Trump administration is preparing to terminate $7 billion in federal grants intended to help low- and moderate-income families install solar panels on their homes, according to two people briefed on the matter. The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting termination letters to the 60 state agencies, nonprofit groups and Native American tribes that received the...
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