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Everett Sloane

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Nuclear

Commonwealth Fusion Systems installed the first of 18 magnets in its Sparc tokamak, the next-year demo unit aimed at burning-plasma physics

June 4, 2026

Extreme Weather

Repeated rounds of severe storms threaten the northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley through Thursday with hail, damaging gusts, and flash flooding

June 4, 2026

Extreme Weather

Repeated rounds of severe storms with very large hail and isolated tornadoes will hit the northern Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley through Thursday

June 4, 2026

Energy Transition

US electricity demand will climb from 4,097 TWh in 2024 to roughly 4,250 TWh in 2026, a back-to-back record stretch driven mostly by AI

June 4, 2026

Extreme Weather

The University of Arizona’s 2026 outlook calls for 20 named storms, 9 hurricanes, 4 majors, and a 155-unit ACE — sharply above NOAA

June 3, 2026

Nuclear

The NRC’s proposed fusion framework regulates tritium handling and neutron-activation waste, skipping the emergency cooling rules fission reactors require

June 3, 2026

Extreme Weather

Heat dome bakes 22 states this week, pushing 50 million Americans past 90 degrees and 11 million past 100

June 3, 2026

Nuclear

China’s “artificial sun” pushed past a fusion density ceiling that physicists believed could not be crossed, holding plasma stable at extreme densities

June 3, 2026

Extreme Weather

A confirmed tornado tracked east at 15 mph just 22 miles northeast of Laramie, Wyoming on Tuesday afternoon

June 3, 2026

Extreme Weather

NOAA expects 8 to 14 named storms, 3 to 6 hurricanes, and up to 3 majors in a below-normal 2026 Atlantic season

June 3, 2026

Extreme Weather

A derecho can flatten counties in hours, packing hurricane-force straight-line winds across hundreds of inland miles

June 3, 2026

Extreme Weather

Greenland’s extreme-melt area now expands by 2.8 million square kilometers per decade, a sixfold jump since 1990

June 3, 2026

Extreme Weather

Colorado State sharpened its 2026 forecast to 13 named storms, 6 hurricanes, and 2 majors, well above NOAA’s lower bound

June 3, 2026

Power and Grids

California’s grid pulled 12.3 gigawatts from batteries one evening at 7pm — 42.8% of all electricity statewide

June 3, 2026

Nuclear

Germany’s Focused Energy raised $240 million to build a laser fusion plant on the grounds of the shuttered Biblis nuclear station

June 3, 2026

Extreme Weather

Antarctica is losing about 135 billion tons of ice each year, with warm-water channels speeding melt from below

June 3, 2026

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