Today, Jan. 5, 2026, nuclear policy discussions, surging volumes, and dilution risks collide in this fast-evolving SMR story.

New York is jockeying to build the first advanced nuclear power plant in the nation. On Monday, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced that she was directing "the state's public electric utility to ...

Two of the overall goals are to quadruple US nuclear energy (add 300 GW to about 100GW) within 25 years. There is also the goal of reducing new nuclear reactor approval times to 18 months. Within 240 ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. LANSING — Lawmakers backing pro-nuclear energy bills say ...

Not long ago, I met a woman from Belarus. She told me about the terrible aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in April 1986. As a child, she’d had to evacuate her home, which was contaminated ...

Regarding the op-ed “Illinois needs the nuclear option for our energy needs” (July 7): Pro-nuclear readers like me who are concerned about climate change applaud the well-articulated commentary by ...

When fashion model Isabelle Boemeke started posting TikToks about nuclear power in 2020, her friends were baffled. One of her booking agents said she would wreck her career by touting something so ...

Americans want nuclear power now more than ever. Support has surged to new highs, giving President Donald Trump a boost in his goal of expanding nuclear power-generating technology and building ...

Jan. 3 (UPI) --A string of announcements about big investments in nuclear energy production signal a revival for the industry that already produces about 20% of U.S. electricity. Google, Microsoft and ...

If you’ve used ChatGPT to write a breakup text or figure out how to not burn the Christmas roast, you might’ve actually helped create jobs and profits in California, where the artificial intelligence ...

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