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May 31

US Government Offers Cold War Plutonium to Nuclear Startups

The Trump administration is converting dormant weapons material into feedstock for advanced reactor companies, collapsing the historical separation between defense infrastructure and commercial nuclear innovation. This move addresses a key constraint on next-gen reactor deployment—fuel supply—while reducing storage and security costs for legacy warhead stockpiles, aligning nonproliferation goals with venture-scale business models. The politics reshape the sector: this legitimizes small modular reactors as infrastructure rather than speculation, but concentrates fuel access among startups with government relationships, determining which reactor designs actually get built.

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May 25

Wind and solar surpass gas globally for the first time

Source: Slashdot: Hardware

This April, renewable capacity outproduced fossil gas on a monthly basis worldwide for the first time—operational reality, not projection. The crossing collapses the "renewables aren't reliable enough" argument at scale and shows that grid operators have solved the intermittency problem through storage, forecasting, and interconnection rather than waiting for battery breakthroughs. Watch which regions hit this inflection first in their own grids; Europe already operates this way. If Australia, California, and Texas follow within 24 months, the investment thesis for natural gas infrastructure flips from essential baseload to stranded asset.