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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore delivers a speech at the Maryland State House in Annapolis on Feb. 5. Credit: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Maryland’s Climate Ambitions in Question After Turbulent Legislative Session

By Aman Azhar

The core module of China’s first small modular nuclear reactor is seen on July 13, 2023, before shipment to the construction site at the Changjiang nuclear power plant. Credit: Liu Xuan/VCG via Getty Images

Nation’s First Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Could Come to Michigan in 2030

By Carrie Klein

An aerial view of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant near Fort Worth, Texas. Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Will Texas Become ‘the Epicenter of a National Nuclear Renaissance’?

By Arcelia Martin

Transmission lines connect power generated by water turbines at the Grand Coulee Dam to the grid in Washington state. Credit: Don and Melinda Crawford/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

How Does Your State Produce Its Electricity? The Variations are Wild and Weird

By Dan Gearino

A view of the Waste Control Specialists radioactive and hazardous waste storage site in Andrews, Texas. Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune

Supreme Court Takes Up Nuclear Waste in Texas

By Dylan Baddour

A view of the Palisades nuclear plant in Van Buren County, Mich. Credit: Holtec International

A Nuclear Power Resurgence Is Coming to Michigan. What Are the Potential Health Impacts?

By Carrie Klein

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union, reacts after his speech during an election campaign stop on Feb. 20 in Berlin. Credit: Maja Hitij/Getty Images

Conservatives Win in Germany, But New Chancellor Will Be Limited in Ability to Make Big Changes to Climate and Energy Policy

By Dan Gearino

Rusty Towell, the founding director of Abilene Christian University's Nuclear Energy Experimental Testing, describes the workings of a molten salt testing device installed in the NEXT lab at Abilene Christian University. Credit: Ronald W. Erdrich/Abilene Reporter-News

Texas Wants to Be a Nuclear Power

By Dylan Baddour

Workers walk past a turbine inside the Calvert Cliffs nuclear power plant in Lusby, Md. Credit: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Maryland Environmental Leaders Slam Legislative Push for Gas-Powered Plants, Split Over Nuclear Energy

By Aman Azhar

The currently retired Palisades Nuclear Generating Station is one of the oldest nuclear plants in the country, completed in 1971 along the shores of Lake Michigan. Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Michigan Residents Push for an Environmental Impact Statement Before Restarting the Palisades Nuclear Plant

By Carrie Klein

An aerial view of the V.C. Summer nuclear site near Jenkinsville, S.C. Credit: High Flyer

Halted Nuclear Plant Project Could Restart in South Carolina

By Carrie Klein

New York State is considering advanced nuclear technologies, just two years after the closure of the Indian Point nuclear power plant. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Caught in a Climate Bind, New York State Is Reconsidering Nuclear Power

By Gaea Cabico

A view of the Naughton coal-fired power plant in Kemmerer, Wyo. The plant is scheduled to be decommissioned by 2025 and TerraPower plans to build a nuclear plant nearby. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

Q&A: What’s the Deal with Bill Gates’s Wyoming Nuclear Plant?

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Operators peer into the reactor pool where Texas A&M University’s Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics (TRIGA) nuclear research reactor emits a blue glow on March 11, 2024 in College Station. Credit: Eli Hartman/The Texas Tribune

Small Nuclear Reactors May Be Coming to Texas, Boosted by Interest From Gov. Abbott

By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune

Engineers conduct experimental studies on Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) at CEA Cadarache in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France on Nov. 23, 2023. Credit: Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images

Virginia Utilities Seek Unbridled Rate Adjustments for Unproven Small Modular Nuclear Reactors in Two New Bills

By Jake Bolster

Signs warning of health risks are posted outside the gates of an abandoned uranium mine in the community of Red Water Pond Road, N.M. Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Images

New Online Dashboard Identifies Threats Posed by Uranium Mines and Mills in New Mexico

By Noel Lyn Smith

Wind electric power generation turbines generate electricity outside Medicine Bow, Wyoming in August 2022. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/ AFP via Getty Images.

Wyoming Could Gain the Most from Federal Climate Funding, But Obstacles Are Many

By Marianne Lavelle

Perry Nuclear Power Plant. Credit: FirstEnergy/CC-BY-ND-2.0

Ohio Governor Signs Nuclear and Coal Bailout at Expense of Renewable Energy

By Dan Gearino

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