Pentagon Weighs Anti-Drone Laser Weapon Deployment In DC To Fortify Airspace

US Southern Command announced on Monday that its forces bombed another alleged drug-running boat in the waters of Latin America, and said that the attack killed at least two people. SOUTHCOM said the strike targeted a boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, and it offered no evidence to back up its claim that the small […]

NANO Nuclear's Reactor Construction Permit Accepted For Review The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has formally begun its review of the construction permit application for an advanced microreactor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  ✅ #NRCNews: We've kicked off the formal review of the @UofIllinois application for an advanced microreactor. https://t.co/0gMFCuDv5u — NRC (@NRCgov) May 19, 2026 The announcement marks the transition from the agency’s acceptance review to the substantive technical evaluation of NANO Nuclear’s KRONOS design. This step carries more weight than the initial filing. Submitting an application demonstrates readiness on paper; the NRC’s...

Tonight: How Aalo Atomics Just "Made History" Tonight on the ZH homepage, Erik Townsend of Macro Voices will host a special livestream with the founders (CEO and CTO) of nuclear energy company Aalo Atomics: Matt Loszak and Yasir Arafat. This will be part of an ongoing series diving into the emerging nuclear energy technologies, to feature heads of the cutting edge startups and some technical and philisophical debates about where the industry needs to head in order to solve the world's energy needs. The following is from Erik Townsend's Substack (full post) which gives...