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New details just surfaced on Russia’s super-weapon sub Khabarovsk — 135 meters long, carrying six nuclear torpedoes designed to wash coastlines with radioactive waves

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Russia just wrapped its Pacific nuclear submarine base at Rybachiy in anti-drone defenses — satellite photos showing new netting and cages across berths 4,000 miles from Ukraine

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The U.S. executive order on nuclear just set a 4x target — pushing the country from 100 gigawatts of nuclear power today to 400 by 2050

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The Department of Energy just awarded $2.7 billion in contracts to restart domestic uranium enrichment — the biggest bet on U.S. nuclear fuel since the Cold War

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Amazon just reserved an entire nuclear plant in Pennsylvania for the next 17 years — locking in 2 gigawatts to power its hungriest AI data centers

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Three advanced U.S. reactors are racing to flip the switch before year-end — small modular plants built to quadruple the power pouring into the country’s AI server farms

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The world’s biggest fusion reactor just got its 1,000-ton ‘beating heart’ — the U.S. just delivered the final piece of the magnet that will spark ITER into life

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Three U.S. startups are racing to switch on brand-new advanced reactors before year’s end — the opening push to quadruple America’s nuclear power

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Engineers just designed a tiny battery that runs on nuclear waste and could power a sensor for decades without a single recharge

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Scientists just held fusion plasma hotter than the sun’s core for a record stretch — trapping superheated gas long enough to edge closer to real power

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An entire Pennsylvania nuclear plant just got reserved to feed Amazon’s AI data centers — nearly 2 gigawatts of reactor power locked up for 17 years

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Engineers just finished assembling the most powerful magnet ever built — the 1,000-ton heart of the $22 billion reactor chasing limitless fusion energy

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North Carolina lawmakers just moved to block Duke Energy from closing coal plants until new nuclear is approved to replace every lost megawatt

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The Energy Department just handed eight companies $94 million to fast-track small modular reactors — clearing the licensing and supply snags that stall new plants

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China’s ‘artificial sun’ just pushed its fusion plasma past a density limit physicists long called unreachable — inching closer to power too cheap to meter

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The U.S. Navy is bringing nuclear-armed cruise missiles back to its attack submarines for the first time since the Cold War — a weapon mothballed for decades

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The U.S. Navy is putting nuclear-tipped cruise missiles back on its submarines for the first time since the Cold War — a weapon retired decades ago

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North Carolina lawmakers just moved to block Duke Energy from closing coal plants until new nuclear is approved to replace every lost megawatt

By Everett Sloane

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The Energy Department just handed eight companies $94 million to fast-track small modular reactors — clearing the licensing and supply snags that stall new plants

By Everett Sloane

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The 3,000-ton heart of the world’s biggest fusion reactor just reached France — a 59-foot magnet 15 years in the making that clears the path to first plasma

By Everett Sloane

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