Eliminating obsolete or unsafe dams could help bolster community safety amid climate-induced weather extremes, watershed experts are recommending. Storms and floods have intensified in both frequency and severity, since the construction of the dams — many of which are now in a state of disrepair, according to a new white paper, published by Utah State University. “Removing...
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Tuesday compared the race to dominate artificial intelligence (AI) to an American atomic bomb program during World War II. “The AI race is the second Manhattan project,” Wright said in a Tuesday poston the social platform X. During the World War II, the U.S. government’s Manhattan Project eventually succeeded in the creation of atomic weapons...
Paramount Gold Nevada (NYSE-AM: PZG) has secured fast-tracked permitting for its Grassy Mountain gold project in Oregon under state and federal processes. After recent administrative changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is to publish its draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for Grassy Mountain online early next...
On 13 July 2024, a blade damage incident took place on one of the turbines installed on Vineyard Wind 1, located 15 miles (approximately 24 kilometres) off the coast of Massachusetts. Following an investigation, GE Vernova found that the damage was a result of a manufacturing deviation, and later decided to remove the blades that were produced in the same...
The appearance of Neil Jacobs, President Trump’s NOAA nominee, before a Senate panel on Wednesday was fairly revealing by the standards of these kinds of things. Why it matters: NOAA is a major climate research agency, and its National Weather Service plays a huge public safety role — especially as climate change intensifies some extreme weather events. ...
A tiny Pacific nation may become the first in the world to mine the ocean floor. The Cook Islands, about 3,000 miles east of Australia near Tonga and Fiji, lays claim to an enormous wealth of polymetallic nodules in its national waters. Some Cook Islanders are excited about deep-sea mining’s economic potential, while others are...
Perhaps it’s too soon to mark nuclear power’s revival in the U.S. but there is a burst of activity that should ultimately yield a new generation of advanced nuclear plants and small modular reactors. This is especially true for major industrial energy consumers – which now also includes data centers – where there is a...
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season begins, Duke Energy Florida is accelerating its investment in grid resilience and storm preparedness. Through advanced grid-hardening strategies, undergrounding projects, and the deployment of self-healing technology, the utility aims to reduce outages and speed restoration for its more than 2 million customers across the state Read the piece in E+E Leader...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has launched a novel pilot program that will allow private developers to build and operate full-scale advanced nuclear test reactors outside of the national laboratory system, without a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Through a new authorization model grounded in the Atomic Energy Act and a Trump-era...
Fermi America, a Texas company co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, aims to build the largest energy and data complex of its kind powered by nuclear, natural gas and solar, it said on Thursday. Fermi plans to partner on the “Hypergrid” project with Texas Tech University and said it will be launched on...
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