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America’s 64 pressurized water reactors get through about 660 pounds of enriched lithium a year between them, a single molten salt reactor would want tens of tons of it on its own, and nothing on American soil has made the stuff since the Kennedy administration

By Luis Reyes — Sep 3, 2026

A Swedish industrial park cuts up dead reactors for a living, taking pieces 98 feet long and 440 tons heavy, sandblasting them and melting 5,500 tons of the metal into ingots a year, and the company that owns the ground now wants four working reactors standing on it

By Luis Reyes — Sep 3, 2026

An 86-ton borer has cut the hole that will take a 27-ton canister of spent nuclear fuel, 27.6 feet deep and 5 feet 9 inches wide in granite that formed 1.9 billion years ago, and it is allowed to wander less than an inch off vertical the whole way down

By Luis Reyes — Sep 2, 2026

A crane lowered eight 12-foot fuel bundles into a reactor on the Lake Michigan shore on Sunday, 196 short of a full core, four years after the vessel was emptied for scrapping, and some of the bundles going back in are the ones that were in it when it shut down

By Luis Reyes — Sep 2, 2026

Water left over from a sea that covered the Gulf 150 million years ago is coming up Arkansas wells carrying 400 milligrams of lithium a liter, five times the commercial floor, and oil and bromine crews pumped 5,000 tons of it up in one year and put every ounce back

By Luis Reyes — Sep 2, 2026

A coal hall that pushed 865 megawatts into the Tennessee grid for 56 years now has two machines moving into it and neither one makes a watt, and the one that eventually will is going to shoot frozen hydrogen pellets into a plasma at 180 million degrees

By Luis Reyes — Sep 2, 2026

A 19.7-foot rotor floating on a Dutch lake tilts back toward horizontal when the wind gets up instead of parking the way every offshore turbine does, and it makes 12 kilowatts against the 15,000 of the 774-foot rotor it is meant to replace one day

By Luis Reyes — Sep 2, 2026

An Italian professor measured the ground under 7,770 solar panels running 36 degrees cooler than open dirt a short walk away, took the reading at 11 in the morning on an unusually hot day, and says shading past 30 percent starts costing the grower fruit

By Luis Reyes — Sep 2, 2026

Illinois wants to set a 45-megawatt reactor next to the coal boilers that have heated 150 campus buildings since 1941, with the fuel pellet doing the job of the containment dome and no emergency power on the list at all — first safety evaluation February 2027, and nobody has run one of these anywhere

By Luis Reyes — Sep 1, 2026

A 155-millimeter shell left a howitzer over New Mexico at 18,000 times the force of gravity, which is 2,000 times what knocks a fighter pilot out, then lit a liquid-fueled jet engine in midair and flew on under power, and the 93 miles it is built for is still a design number

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Sep 1, 2026

A Florida reactor was running at full power when three control rods dropped into the core with nobody asking for them, and nothing holds those rods up but a magnet, so the crew tripped the unit by hand at 9:47 in the morning and the same drop hit the same unit in 2024

By Luis Reyes — Sep 1, 2026

A block of graphite baked at 5,430 degrees both slows the neutrons and holds up the core of an American reactor, and every one of them starts in a French Alpine shop that fell to 30 percent of capacity last year, nearly shut, and has since hired fifteen people

By Luis Reyes — Sep 1, 2026

A Spanish olive oil bottler is raising 5,150 solar panels 13 feet over trees that stop growing at six and a half, because the straddle harvester that clamps each trunk and shakes the fruit loose stands 11.5 feet at full stretch, and every tree stays in the ground.

By Luis Reyes — Sep 1, 2026

A 1-megawatt reactor packed into a 20-foot container is going aboard a Gulf supply boat, five months after the same design went critical at Idaho and made no usable electricity at all, and no date or port has been named for it

By Luis Reyes — Aug 31, 2026

While every other microreactor startup waits on a fuel that 900 kilograms of gets made a year, an Austin company built around the grade 440 reactors already burn, and has sold a data center on five cores nobody has started building

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Aug 31, 2026

1,222 tons is what Korea threw away in solar panels last year, a Korean smelter wants 120,000 tons a year of the stuff by 2030, and the gap gets filled by American panels sailing 6,330 miles from four shredding plants on US soil

By Luis Reyes — Aug 31, 2026

A 440-foot wall across a Tanzanian gorge backs up a reservoir rated for 1.5 million acre-feet more than Lake Mead, and the last of its nine turbines had been spinning for sixteen months before anyone cut the ribbon

By Luis Reyes — Aug 31, 2026

While four American microreactors were going critical this summer, a British startup was heating molten salt in a mass spectrometer outside Cambridge to work out which metals it eats, on a reactor meant to run fuel that pulses to 22,000 megawatts and stops itself

By Luis Reyes — Aug 31, 2026

32,500 solar panels now stand 10 feet above alfalfa, oats, broad beans, rosemary and chamomile in southern Italy, under rules that set a tractor’s clearance as the legal floor and force 70 percent of the ground to stay farmed, and no harvest has been weighed

By Luis Reyes — Aug 31, 2026

265 pounds of leased government uranium went critical under an Idaho shed, on a machine with no turbine, no cooling loop and no way to move heat out of its core, and it cleared its environmental review as a laboratory experiment

By Luis Reyes — Aug 30, 2026

864,000 shots a day is what a commercial laser fusion plant needs, the only machine that has ever pulled more energy out of a target than it put in fires about 400 times a year, and the site picked to close that gap is a reactor switched off in 2011

By Luis Reyes — Aug 30, 2026

41 blue rubber balls came off an English beach in half an hour, each one a little wider than the condenser tube it was made to wipe, dropped into a power station’s cooling water so every tube gets scrubbed every 5 to 10 minutes without shutting anything down

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Aug 30, 2026

A 500,000-pound transformer came off a ship in Baltimore, a barge in Newark and a train in Middletown before crawling onto Three Mile Island at 5 miles an hour, and the executive watching it arrive was the man who told the staff in 2019 the plant was closing

By Luis Reyes — Aug 30, 2026

A 46-ton steel cylinder rocks end over end in the Atlantic 17 miles off the French coast, sloshing a water pendulum that squeezes air through a turbine with no gearbox and no magnets in it, and all 200 kilowatts it makes are dumped, because no cable runs to shore

By Luis Reyes — Aug 30, 2026

A truck pulled out of Kellogg on July 31 with the first concentrate that mine has produced in 45 years, carrying lead, zinc and silver that Washington added to its critical minerals list in November, and drove 140 miles north into Canada because no American plant will take it

By Luis Reyes — Aug 29, 2026

3,100 solar panels now float on the reservoir where 35,000 Ohioans get their drinking water, on four acres instead of the ten the same output needs on land, and the mayor who proposed it in 2019 retired two years later without seeing a single float go in

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Aug 29, 2026

A drone fleet is being built to pull sunlight back onto solar panels by breaking up the cloud deck overhead, and the engineer selling it spent his master’s degree doing the opposite, spraying seawater to make clouds more reflective and cool the planet down

By Luis Reyes — Aug 29, 2026

A 1-megawatt reactor rode a flatbed out of a Los Angeles suburb, crossed more than 1,000 miles of interstate, and now has to go critical, reach full power and run 150 hours untouched inside an 80-foot concrete dome, and it has not gone critical once

By Luis Reyes — Aug 29, 2026

150 box-truck-sized modules will ring one fusion chamber in Albuquerque, dump 80 megajoules at the same instant, hit a pea of hydrogen with a pulse thousands of times stronger than lightning, crush it in under 100 billionths of a second, and two of them are built

By Luis Reyes — Aug 29, 2026

A reactor the size of a two-car garage stands its fuel rods in 880 tons of molten lead, runs at the same pressure as the parking lot outside, goes 25 years without refuelling, and the Swedish company that asked for eight of them is building the demonstration unit in America

By Luis Reyes — Aug 28, 2026

An oil rig yard has built a 100-kilowatt floating solar farm off Shandong on bamboo tubes wound under tension and set in resin, in water where untreated bamboo lasts under two years before the borers get it, and it never published how the 10-kilowatt one aged

By Luis Reyes — Aug 28, 2026

A gas-cooled reactor small enough for five acres, running nitrogen at 1,100 degrees over uranium grains the size of poppy seeds, is going inside the wire at Fort Campbell, one of more than 20 the Army wants on its posts, and the Army will not own or license a single one

By Luis Reyes — Aug 28, 2026

A gravity dam 66 feet tall on the Ain holds back a pond that empties in a few hours whenever the pumps run, and EDF has ordered a single 17-megawatt turbine that lets the valley recycle four times the water it does now, taking its storage from 50 gigawatt-hours to 250

By Luis Reyes — Aug 28, 2026

A solar factory hall outside Catania covers 2.15 million square feet and is tooled to push out 800,000 cells and 14,000 modules a day, Italy then rewrote its tax rules until almost nothing but those modules qualified, and the line has still never once run at full capacity

By Luis Reyes — Aug 28, 2026

A French startup has filed for a reactor that fits into 141 cubic feet, about the interior of six household refrigerators, and plans to hold 10.4 tons of plutonium in there for twenty years on one load, and the vessel itself comes out as the biggest waste it makes

By Luis Reyes — Aug 27, 2026

The sheet of glass on the front of a solar panel does nothing but keep the rain off and let the light through, so a California company coated it in perovskite to make it the first layer that generates, and three manufacturers have signed 13 gigawatts of it on six weeks of outdoor evidence and accelerated testing in the lab

By Luis Reyes — Aug 27, 2026

While America pours concrete on two sodium reactors that come to 420 megawatts between them and have not fissioned an atom, a 500-megawatt one on the Indian coast has spent four months critical, sitting in 1,750 tons of molten sodium, unable to reach a wire over a billing dispute

By Luis Reyes — Aug 27, 2026

A mako shark with a sensor bolted to its dorsal fin sends a temperature profile up from under the Atlantic for $296, a robot glider charges $1,875 for the same reading before you count the $350,000 machine, and the shark stays down three times as long

By Luis Reyes — Aug 27, 2026

A 3.5-pound sheet of solar film peels off a roll, goes onto bare concrete with a hand roller, and 414 of them now cover three towers at a Bavarian car factory that had just put 500 times more onto a warehouse roof next door using ordinary glass on a steel rack

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Aug 27, 2026

A 7,000-pound robot flew a sheet of laser light through open water off Brazil and rebuilt jellyfish in three dimensions without touching any of them, and in about two weeks it confirmed 31 species nobody had ever described, one every eleven hours

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Aug 26, 2026

An 80-pound solar panel coming off a California line carries about five grams of the coating that makes it work, roughly a blueberry’s worth of liquid, and the company has a billion dollars of letters of intent for a product nobody outside the building has certified

By Luis Reyes — Aug 26, 2026

A Belgian cement works spent a century eating the chalk under its own feet, flooded the hole it left, floated 55,000 solar panels on the water and wired them straight into the kiln, and the whole array offsets about six weeks of what that kiln puts out in a year

By Luis Reyes — Aug 26, 2026

An 865-megawatt coal hall in Tennessee is being handed to two machines that generate nothing, one spinning to steady the grid, one firing frozen hydrogen pellets into a plasma to prove the magnets hold, 56 years after the first load went into the boiler

By Chema Bonilla Díaz — Aug 26, 2026

A French reactor holds its water at 87 psi, the pressure in a road bike tire, heats it to 212 degrees, a pan boiling on a stove, and pushes it into the pipes a gas boiler would have fed, heating 20,000 homes off a core smaller than a cubic meter

By Luis Reyes — Aug 26, 2026

A steel tube of 855 servers came off the North Sea floor wearing barnacles and anemones the size of cantaloupes, with six machines dead against eight of the 135 kept on land, and Microsoft shut the programme down while China put 2,000 of them on the seabed off Shanghai

By Luis Reyes — Aug 25, 2026

A Danish school is skinned in 12,000 sea-green solar tiles with no pigment in any of them, each one tipped four degrees off the plane for a reason that has nothing to do with electricity, and the whole array sat switched off for months because the grid could not take it

By Luis Reyes — Aug 25, 2026

A 60-pound rodent digs canals, lifts the water table and keeps a strip of willow soaked all summer, and with 7.6 million American acres already burned this year, the river ground it dams came through three megafires as refuge 89 percent of the time against 60 without

By Luis Reyes — Aug 25, 2026

A reactor small enough to ride in a 20-foot shipping container has been stacked one piece at a time inside a building in Virginia, its 40,000 fuel compacts have sat in Idaho since November waiting for it, and the truck ride is the whole reason the Pentagon bought it

By Luis Reyes — Aug 25, 2026

A Dutch reactor core is built to be pulled out and swapped every five to ten years instead of lasting sixty, ships away sealed as one unit, and burns the long-lived waste that came out of somebody else’s reactor, of which America is sitting on 95,000 tons with nowhere to send it

By Luis Reyes — Aug 25, 2026

A pane of glass 30 centimeters square, with a gold electrode eight nanometers thick and an absorbing layer 500 times thinner than a hair, put out a little over 7 watts in noon sunshine, and the 22 percent figure that went round the world came from a smaller cell under a lamp

By Luis Reyes — Aug 25, 2026
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