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A Second Life for Plastics
“There are tremendous societal benefits to plastic, but thinking about what happens to those plastics once they get to the end of their life is a huge problem,” says Professor Matthew Golder. (Photo: Juan Rodriguez) April 1, 2026 | By Nancy Joseph, UW...
Avalanche Energy Awarded Contract with DARPA to Develop New Radiovoltaics
Avalanche Energy employee prepares fusion plasma test on one of the company’s compact devices. (Avalanche Photo) Earlier this week, Avalanche Energy was awarded a $5.2 million contract from DARPA's Rads to Watts program to develop new radiovoltaics. The Pentagon...
Iranian-Affiliated Cyber Actors Exploit Programmable Logic Controllers Across U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Iran-affiliated advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are conducting exploitation activity targeting internet-facing operational technology (OT) devices, including programmable logic controllers (PLCs) manufactured by Rockwell Automation/Allen-Bradley. This...
Chernobyl at 40: Where it Stands Now
On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, POWER sent a freelance photographer and correspondent to the site in Ukraine to document the massive decommissioning effort still underway—and the new threats that have complicated it. At 1:23 a.m. local time on April...
APPA Recognizes Public Power Utilities with RP3 Designation
High-voltage wire tower at dusk One hundred eighteen of the nation’s more than 2,000 public power utilities earned the Reliable Public Power Provider (RP3®) designation from the American Public Power Association (APPA) for providing reliable and safe electric service,...
Puget Sound Energy and ChargeScape Launch New Demonstration Using EVs
Photo Credit: Kurt Schlosser, GeekWire Puget Sound Energy (PSE) and ChargeScape have announced testing of new vehicle-to-home (V2H) technology enabling electric vehicles to power homes during power outages, together with partners Ford, Kia and Wallbox. The innovative...
DOE Announces $1.9B Funding Opportunity for Transmission Technology Upgrades
High-voltage wire tower at dusk On March 12, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity announced an approximate $1.9 billion to catalyze electricity infrastructure investments to meet electricity demand growth and resource adequacy requirements,...
DOE Approves Safety Documentation for MARVEL Criticality
Idaho National Laboratory photo: rendering of the MARVEL microreactor Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Idaho Operations Office approved a key safety document for the MARVEL microreactor at Idaho National Laboratory. The approved document, called a...
WSU Celebrates 65 Years of Nuclear Excellence
Journalists from several media outlets toured the Nuclear Science Center in advance of the 65th anniversary of the reactor’s first activation, learning about WSU’s continuing commitment to research, training and America’s energy future (photo by Bob Hubner, WSU Photo...
PGE Secures New Clean Energy and Battery Storage
Photo by American Public Power Association on Unsplash Portland General Electric recently finalized agreements for more than 1,000 megawatts of new clean energy and battery storage, marking major progress in the company’s largest clean energy acquisition effort to...