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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Utah Governor Spencer Cox has put energy at the center of his time in office, creating a blueprint for states across the U.S. to advance energy affordability and clean power. Cox, a Republican, has supported a mix of energy resources, including advanced nuclear and geothermal power, and led an effort with governors in the region to advance transmission.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Dr. Bill Frist is a heart and lung surgeon, former U.S. Senate majority leader, and Chair of the Global Board of Directors for The Nature Conservancy nonprofit. He has emerged as a prominent Republican advocate for climate action, seeking to bridge the partisan divide by emphasizing how protecting the environment benefits human health.

Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Bob Mumgaard is the co-founder and CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS), which is developing technology to commercialize fusion power. In 2026, the company secured an additional $1 billion fundraising round as progress continues on its SPARC machine, which it says will be able to use powerful magnets to confine superheated plasma and produce power.

One of the biggest races in the nuclear power industry is to commercialize small modular reactors--which, at a fraction of the size of a traditional nuclear plant, can still produce about a third of the power of a standard reactor. The hype around this next generation of nuclear power hinges on the promise of providing AI data centers with all the energy they could possibly need. And with a market cap currently over $4 billion, at time of publishing, Oklo is one the hyperscalers are watching closely. Founded by couple Caroline and Jacob DeWitte in 2013, the company began construction last year on its Aurora "powerhouse" fast-fission power plant in Idaho and hopes to have it operational by 2028. Oklo, which was backed by Sam Altman before he launched OpenAI and has close ties to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, has benefitted from the Trump Administration's push to accelerate nuclear power development.

Chernobyl's Dogs May Be Evolving, but Scientists Don't Know Why A new study found evidence of natural selection in the dogs of Chernobyl, but it's still unclear what drove these genetic differences and what evolutionary advantages they may provide. Dogs have roamed around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant since the 1986 catastrophe, and that may have shaped this population's genetics. The dogs living near the disaster site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant are not like other dogs--at least as far as their genomes go. In recent years, researchers uncovered a unique genetic profile among this population, but what's driven this distinction remained unclear. The explanation that's perhaps most tantalizing to a sci-fi author is that the persistent radiation at the nuclear site has caused mutations to accumulate in the dogs' genomes.

Why Jordan Klepper thinks we're living in dumb McCarthyism Jordan Klepper opens up about the exhausting nature of the current news cycle, the power of algorithms, and navigating political hypocrisy.

AI's real bottleneck is electricity. Who will pay for it? Share AI's real bottleneck is electricity. Who will pay for it? Within a week, two of the three largest cloud computing companies in the world signed 20-year contracts for nuclear electricity.

A new era of spaceflight could save astronauts time and cut exposure to cosmic radiation as they rocket to Mars--and beyond. Just before the Artemis II crew began its historic slingshot around the moon this past April, NASA announced plans to build Space Reactor-1 Freedom. SR-1, the first-ever nuclear-reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft, is meant to fly an uncrewed mission to Mars by the end of 2028, arriving in 2029. A successful mission would herald a new era of more efficient, potentially faster spaceflight--saving astronauts time and cutting their exposure to harmful cosmic radiation as they travel to Mars and beyond. "You wake up to that announcement, and it puts a big smile on your face," says Simon Middleburgh, co-director of the Nuclear Futures Institute at Bangor University in Wales. Running a nuclear reactor in space may sound like lunacy, but it's not.

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