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Nuclear

An aerial view of Constellation Energy’s nuclear power plant with a wind power turbine in the foreground near Marseilles, Ill. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Illinois Punts on Plans for Increasing Energy Storage, Renewables

By Leigh Giangreco

An aerial view of the Salem and Hope Creek Generating Stations situated on the Delaware River in Salem County, N.J. Credit: Stan Honda/AFP via Getty Images

With Clean Energy Stalled, Can New Jersey Bet on Nuclear and Win?

By Rambo Talabong

President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order related to the nuclear power industry in the Oval Office of the White House on Friday. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Trump Signs Executive Orders to Boost Nuclear Energy, Reduce Oversight

By Keerti Gopal

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

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

Evaporation ponds hold produced water amid the oil wells of the Permian Basin. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Treating Texas’ Oilfield Wastewater Could Require More Energy Than Most US States

By Dylan Baddour

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

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

Supporters of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act sing about saving the program on Sept. 22 before leaving Albuquerque, New Mexico for Washington, D.C. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Tribal Members Journey to Washington Push for Reauthorization of Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

By Noel Lyn Smith

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

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