"Surprise" X1.5 Solar Flare Detected Ahead Of NASA's Rocket Launch To Moon

US, Japan, And South Korea Push SMR Exports For "Energy Security Needs" The American nuclear buildout is not just about the climate or powering data centers. It's a geopolitical war against the export of nuclear technology from Russia and China, mixed with a new demand for national energy security. On the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Ankara, the United States, Japan, and South Korea signed a trilateral Memorandum of Cooperation aimed at accelerating small modular reactor (SMR) deployments in other countries, with an initial focus on the Indo-Pacific. The agreement...

Geothermal Heats Up: Fervo Drilling Rates Soar 143% While Quaise Raises $134M While the Trump administration keeps pushing domestic energy addition through funding vehicles and executive orders aimed at grid reliability and AI-driven demand growth, two next-generation geothermal developers just posted updates that move past announcements and into measurable progress on drilling and capital formation. Fervo announced that its third-generation well design at Cape Station in Utah has lifted drilling rates by 143% compared with the first Cape well.  The latest well, Sawtooth 7, reached 19,448 feet measured depth, including a 7,500-foot...

North Korea Fires Barrage Of Missiles As Kim Plays Hard To Get, After Trump Overture The South Korean government has observed an alarming new launch of a missile barrage by North Korea on Thursday, announcing that an unidentified projectile was fired off the peninsula's east coast on Thursday. "The Joint Chiefs of Staff said the launches of about 10 short-range ballistic missiles happened from North Korea’s capital region around 5 p.m. (0800 GMT) on Thursday," the Associated Press details. "The military said the missiles flew about 300 kilometers (185 miles) each toward...