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Nuclear

A fingertip-sized pellet of nuclear fuel holds about as much energy as a ton of coal

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Solar panels still generate power on cloudy days, just less of it

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

A nuclear-powered submarine can stay underwater for months, limited mainly by its food supply

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

More than a dozen tornadoes tore through Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin on Thursday

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

An 11-gigawatt Texas megacomplex will run on four new nuclear reactors plus gas, solar and wind

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Thursday’s tornadoes left 101 flooded basements and 673 downed traffic signals across Chicago

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Damaging 60 mph winds threaten 23 million people from Washington to Norfolk into Sunday

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

The U.S. grid keeps its alternating current humming at a steady 60 cycles per second

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

One large wind turbine can power roughly a thousand homes in a steady breeze

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

Grid electricity has to be used almost the instant it is generated

By Everett Sloane

Energy & Climate

Enough sunlight strikes Earth in a single hour to power the whole world for a year

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A single average thunderstorm cloud can hold more water than a million pounds

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

The Philippines kept Mayon at Alert Level 3 as eruptions ringed the Pacific this week

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Tropical Storm Cristina is dumping up to a foot of rain on Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

British Columbia faces its highest and most sustained wildfire danger of the entire 2026 season

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

More than 26 million people across the Midwest sit under Thursday’s severe-weather threat

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

A renewed round of supercells could fire near the cold front Thursday with damaging winds and strong tornadoes

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

A fingertip-sized fuel pellet holds about as much energy as a ton of coal

By Everett Sloane

Nuclear

Commonwealth Fusion has now raised nearly $3 billion, with backing from Nvidia and Google, for its Sparc reactor

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

China’s EAST “artificial sun” fired plasma past its usual limit, a step toward scalable fusion power

By Everett Sloane

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