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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 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

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

Photo illustration by Derek Harrison. Photographs by Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group; Giuseppe Cacace/AFP; Olivier Morin/AFP; Yuan Hongyan/VCG via Getty Images

2023 in Climate News: Did Renewable Energy’s Surge Keep Pace With a Radically Warming Climate?

By ICN Staff

Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle property is seen in November 2021. Photo Courtesy of Georgia Power

In Georgia, Bloated Costs Take Over a Nuclear Power Plant and a Fight Looms Over Who Pays

By James Bruggers

Germany Has Built Clean Energy Economy That U.S. Rejected 30 Years Ago

By Osha Gray Davidson

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

Exclusive: Leak Exposes Culture of Fear at San Onofre

By Elizabeth Douglass

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Units 2 and 3. The nuclear power plants a

Repair Costs Soar at Calif. Nuke Plant

By Elizabeth Douglass, InsideClimate News

The Green River in Utah

Utah Nuclear Plan Reignites Water War

By David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News

Citizens protest the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project

India: Prospects Dim for Nuclear Expansion

By Ranjit Devraj, InsideClimate News

Zion nuclear power station

Shutting Down a Nuke: $1B and Decades

By Lisa Song, SolveClimate News

Extreme Heat Is Growing Concern for U.S. Nuclear Operators

By Alyson Kenward, Climate Central

U.S. Nuclear Industry Will Remain Ward of the State, as in France, Report Warns

By Sara Stroud

Secrecy Shrouds DOE's $8.3Bn Nuke Plant Loan, Watchdogs Say

By Stacy Feldman

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