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California Startup Starts Drilling World's First Underground Nuclear Borehole
California Startup Starts Drilling World's First Underground Nuclear Borehole
Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Deep Fission, a California-based nuclear energy startup, started drilling the world’s first underground nuclear borehole March 10 in Kansas, taking a major step forward in building small modular pressurized water reactors one mile below the surface.
The drill rig at the Deep Fission site in Parsons, Kansas. Deep Fission
The test project is being funded as part of the Trump administration’s plan to breathe new life into the American nuclear sector by investing in...
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Several States Contest Federal Orders Keeping Coal-Fired Power Plants Open
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Authored by John Haughey via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
A three-judge federal appeals panel is expected to issue a decision by year’s end on a lawsuit challenging Energy Secretary Chris Wright’s May 2025 emergency order that prevented a Michigan utility from closing a 64-year-old coal-fired power plant.
The R.M. Schahfer Generating Station’s two-coal fired electricity generators in Wheatfield, Indiana, built in 1983 and 1986, were scheduled to close on Dec. 31, 2025, but remain operating under emergency orders issued by Energy...
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Report: US Plans to Provide NATO with Fewer Military Assets
A top US military official told their European counterparts that Washington plans to provide NATO with fewer warplanes, drones, and refueling tankers. The German outlet Der Spiegel reports that Department of War official Alexander Velez-Green briefed high-ranking representatives from NATO member states that the US will curtail its military support to the alliance. The military […]
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May 17, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Americans Face The Highest Memorial Day Gas Prices On Record
Americans Face The Highest Memorial Day Gas Prices On Record
The nationwide average price of regular gasoline marginally increased on Thursday, after five straight days of decline, the American Automobile Association (AAA) said in a May 14 statement.
The national average price is “at the same range as it was in 2022, the year gas prices hit record highs. Travelers are preparing to hit the road in record numbers next week, and drivers will be facing the highest Memorial Day gas prices in four years,” AAA said.
On Friday, prices declined less...
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