“Deep Fission” launches its mile deep reactor
Much to the surprise of residents in the small rural community of Parsons, Kansas, on December 4, 2025 they discovered that a Berkley, California nuclear startup company, Deep Fission, had selected their town for the fledgling company’s nuclear power plant...US to “buy and own” new domestic reactors
On November 19, 2025, Bloomberg news reported that the United States government will “buy and own” as many as ten new, large (1000 MWe and bigger) commercial nuclear reactors. The new nuclear power deal emerged out of President Trump’s October meeting with Japan’s...Trump’s radiation EO will harm women and girls more
Over forty citizen’s sector organizations including the national nonprofit Physicians for Social Responsibility have sent a joint letter to federal officials warning of public health consequences of a series of executive orders by President Trump which direct the NRC...“Make Atoms Great Again?”
President Trump has set a course to “Make Atoms Great Again” as part of his White House “call to action” for an extremely risky and fool hearty national energy policy shift. In October 2025, news outlets reported on the President Trump’s plan to finance a government...Trump cuts Westinghouse reactors deal
On October 28, 2025, the Trump White House announced its commitment to stake at least $80 billion of US federal dollars to initiate yet another very risky run at new construction of Westinghouse Electric Company’s AP1000 nuclear stations. This is the follow-up to his...
[U.S. Navy photo] Dr. Michael E. Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, has authored “Palomares: ...