I am not on here much anymore. I spend my time on LinkedIn, Threads and BlueSky these days. But. Some news: Cipher News is closing. The pix? My favorite day on the job. My thoughts and reflections here: linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

In the The New York Times today. Era of bipartisan clean firm.

The projected date to finish the Construction Permit for the first TerraPower reactor is now the end of 2025, 8 months early. This demonstrates both the slack in the existing NRC process and the potential to improve efficiency while not "cutting corners" on the technical review

Republicans decided this was bad for some reason and are now sabotaging it.

"The U.S. has laid the groundwork for a 'renaissance in battery manufacturing,' said Hannah Pitt with Rhodium Group, but the changes being debated in Congress would be a 'double whammy' for the battery market, hitting both the supply and demand side." ciphernews.com/articles/u-s-l…

Seems important! h/t Catherine Clifford

U.S. leaps over China in battery investment — for now ciphernews.com/articles/u-s-l… by Catherine Clifford in Cipher News

Today, Westinghouse Interim CEO Dan Sumner shared with President Donald J. Trump Donald J. Trump and U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick our bold plans to deliver on the President's vision to have 10 large reactors under construction across the U.S. by 2030, which is expected to create $75 billion in economic

Smart, pragmatic reporting from Amy Harder in her final article w/Cipher News. I’m honored to be part of it, and looking forward to what’s next in her storied career.

Breaking News: The EPA said it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of scientists, after denying that it intended to do so. nyti.ms/4500xIU

Palisades Meets Key Regulatory Milestones and Makes Major Strides in Maintenance and Workforce Expansion to Ensure Timely Restart holtecinternational.com/2025/07/17/hh-…

Water is a chemical called H₂O.

Breaking in the UK: Sizewell C nuclear plant gets final investment decision. £38b project to move ahead.

It’s hard to find a trend in the electricity system right now that *doesn’t* point to near-term price increases if not a broad affordability crisis. The setup is bad and getting worse. I wrote about it for Heatmap News:

🔌💡 Our Brendan Pierpont's recent piece in Utility Dive examines the negative impact of propping up uneconomic "zombie power plants" 🧟🏭 utilitydive.com/news/doe-grid-…

🚨 Historic News for Nuclear Energy! 🚨 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) officially reauthorized the operating license for the Palisades Nuclear Plant—the first time in U.S. history a previously shutdown nuclear facility has been approved for restart. This

In a clear sign of interest in restarting the Duane Arnold nuclear plant, NextEra is acting to reclaim the shuttered plant's grid connection rights. After the plant closed, the grid connection rights were transferred to a solar project. Article link in reply.

What makes Google's data center flex announcement today so significant, in my view: (1) These are the first known contracts between a hyperscaler and US utilities around AI data center flexibility; (2) This is the first known case of US data center flexibility being incorporated

Constellation Energy Corp, the US's largest nuclear operator, announced that it plans to build a new reactor on the site of one of the three upstate NY plants that they already operate. Article link in reply. The did not specify which reactor design they will build, or which

“The company’s 21 nuclear reactors at 12 sites from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast collectively operated 98.8% of the time during the months of June, July and August, keeping the lights on and air conditioners humming for the equivalent of 16 million homes.”