nuclear
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Microsoft in 2024 struck a deal with power producer Constellation Energy to restart the undamaged reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant, the site of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026
Casias had been an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the first atomic bomb was developed and where nuclear weapon work continues, her family told local news outlets after her disappearance.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
Karen Lester, the daughter of an Aboriginal man who went blind due to British nuclear tests in South Australia in the 1950s, will also be one of the inquiry's commissioners.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
France, which once depended on oil for electric generation, now relies mainly on nuclear.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2026
And rather than burn it to release energy, they use nuclear fission, a process that unlocks the energy stored inside a tiny, tiny package: the nucleus of an atom.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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