Transfer of Power: Life After Coal

December 13, 2024

For more than a century, coal powered much of the U.S. Now it's on its way out. That means all across the country, the communities that were built...

The Nuclear Option

September 15, 2023

Fourteen years after receiving its permit, the nation’s first new nuclear reactors in decades just fired up in Georgia. And they ended up...

What’s the Future of Nuclear Power?

April 10, 2020

Nuclear power - revive it or allow a slow death? 
In middle of the last century, nuclear power promised an exciting new world of efficient and...

How Some Countries Are Solving Climate Change

February 1, 2019

When it comes to cutting emissions, there are many paths to success. Sweden, France, South Korea, and Ontario have all taken steps to replace...

C1 Revue: The Future of Oil and Nuclear Power

January 1, 2017

2016 began in the afterglow of the Paris climate accord, and ended with the triumph of a presidential candidate who has labeled climate change a...

Will Closing Diablo Canyon Increase Carbon Pollution?

August 10, 2016

PG&E recently announced plans to close the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant by 2025 and replace it with renewable energy. What does this mean for...

Old Nukes, New Nukes

March 15, 2016

A two-part conversation about the present and future of atomic power in a hot and crowded world.
David R. Baker, Energy Reporter, San Francisco...

Nuclear Power

April 4, 2014

Three years after Fukushima is nuclear power dead in the water? Or is it poised for revival due to the world’s desperate need for carbon-free...

U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus

January 7, 2014

"A clean-energy economy, I think, is the future,” according to 75th U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, who leads America’s Navy and Marine...

Nuclear Revival?

June 11, 2012

For the first time in 30 years, two new nuclear plants are in the works in the US. But in light of the Fukushima plant disaster in Japan, along...