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Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Google Data Centers Will Bring Nuclear Power Back To Tornado Country

A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant. With Google’s plans to reopen it to power nearby data centers, will extreme weather threaten the reactor’s safety?

By Anika Jane Beamer

 A view of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Palo, Iowa. Credit: NextEra Energy
Nuclear Regulatory Commission inspectors visit the Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant expansion site in February in Oswego County, N.Y. Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Department of Energy Announces the Selection of 11 Projects for New Nuclear Reactor Pilot Program

By Lauren Dalban
Inside Uranium Energy Corp.’s Irigaray Central Processing Plant located in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Credit: Uranium Energy Corp.

Uranium Company Receives Wyoming’s First Fast-Tracked Mining Permits

By Jake Bolster
Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials visit Georgia’s Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant construction site in 2021. Credit: NRC

It Just Got Easier to Build Nuclear Power Plants in Wisconsin

By Carrie Klein
Tata Ash Chemicals, a trona production plant in southwest Wyoming, is betting on a bold energy shift: replacing its coal-fired power with a next-generation microreactor. Credit: Najifa Farhat/Inside Climate News

Wyoming Has Been Slow to Transition From Fossil Fuels, but Is Moving Fast Toward New Nuclear Technologies

By Najifa Farhat
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
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
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
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
Entrances to a uranium mine are locked shut outside Ticaboo, Utah. Credit: Photo by George Frey/Getty Images

Tribes Meeting With Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Describe Harms Uranium Mining Has Had on Them, and the Threats New Mines Pose

By Noel Lyn Smith
Representatives from Friends of the Earth and local community groups announced t

Will the Public Get a Say on San Onofre?

By Elizabeth Douglass, InsideClimate News
The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant at Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County,

U.S. Nuclear Safety Post-Fukushima

By Elizabeth Douglass, InsideClimate News
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.

Nuke Protest for a Tiny Utah Town

By David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News
The Green River in Utah

Utah Nuclear Plan Reignites Water War

By David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News
Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station

Fire Knocks Out Cooling at Nebraska Nuke Plant

By John Sullivan, ProPublica

New York: Is Indian Point Worth the Risk?

By Alice Kenny, SolveClimate News
Three Mile Island nuclear station

Nuclear Revival with No Solution for Radioactive Waste

By Abby Luby

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

By Stacy Feldman

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