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Everett Sloane

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Nuclear

The NRC just approved NuScale’s uprated 77-megawatt small modular reactor design — only the second SMR ever cleared in the United States and the most powerful per module

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

A heat dome is rebuilding over the Desert Southwest and southern Plains — Phoenix and Death Valley running toward 110°F with dozens of daily records back under threat

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

AccuWeather now forecasts 65,000 to 80,000 U.S. wildfires this year burning 5.5 to 8 million acres — drought, heat, and El Niño lining up against the West

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

A tornado warning just woke up Kansas City at 1:38 a.m. — Clay and Jackson counties under a confirmed-rotation alert as severe storms tore east

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

A flash flood plume just dropped torrential rain from the central Gulf Coast into the Appalachians — a woman drowned in Petal, Mississippi after her car was swept off the road

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

Mayon’s lava flows just crossed 132 straight days — the longest continuous eruption in the volcano’s recorded history, with roughly 290,000 Filipinos still displaced

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

62% of the United States is now in drought heading into hurricane season — the largest share the country has carried into June in a decade

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center just tilted summer 2026 toward above-normal heat across every U.S. state — coast-to-coast triple-digit risk lasting through August

June 2, 2026

Nuclear

The Pentagon just signed an $77 million contract with L3Harris to sustain testing of Trident II D5 submarine-launched nuclear missiles — the backbone of U.S. sea-based deterrence

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

Gray whales are abandoning the migration route they have used for centuries — turning into San Francisco Bay as climate change starves their Arctic feeding grounds

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

Tropical Storm Jangmi is set to slam mainland Japan Tuesday — Osaka, Hamamatsu, and Tokyo bracing for 50+ mph wind gusts and heavy rain

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

U.S. wildfires have already torched 1.88 million acres this year — 194% above the 10-year average before summer even starts

June 2, 2026

Power and Grids

PJM wholesale power prices just jumped 75.5% in one quarter — 67 million Americans on the eastern grid bracing for a 15% bill hike from AI data centers

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

The Storm Prediction Center just flagged hail and damaging wind threats across the northern High Plains tonight and Tuesday — a slow trough firing supercells from Montana into the Dakotas

June 2, 2026

Extreme Weather

Forecasters just gave the season’s first Eastern Pacific tropical disturbance an 80% chance of spinning up into a tropical storm by midweek off southern Mexico

June 2, 2026

Nuclear

China’s first commercial small modular reactor is set to start generating power this year — the country racing ahead of every Western SMR project on the schedule

June 1, 2026

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