Holy cow! This may be the weather photo of the year. Double rainbow, orange sky over Nationals Park Friday evening. Absolutely amazing capture by Alex Warofka

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New York Public Services Commission opened a proceeding and released an initial order on the Nuclear Reliability Backbone. Largely just background and laying out the case and process, it also has this nugget: "The question as to who should own new nuclear projects is an open issue that requires careful consideration. New York State has an established history of looking to the private sector to own and develop generation resources. At the same time, the magnitude of the Nuclear Reliability Backbone process is of a scale where the State has a compelling interest in ensuring that all efficiencies of financing, coordinated planning, and risk management are brought to bear." Why again are the state's climate progressives and socialists not backing Hochul on state-led nuclear?

WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has repeated his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him at least 107 times in the last six months, keeping the grievance front and center even as he faces new political risks from the war with Iran and looming midterm elections. Trump devotes near-daily attention to ​the issue, a Reuters review of his public events, interviews and online posts found, and his comments often come in waves. One Saturday in April, amid a fragile ceasefire with Iran, Trump posted allegations about the ‌2020 election - when he lost to his predecessor Joe Biden - seven times on his Truth Social account.

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That's a wrap! 🙌 This weekend, operators at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant near Chattanooga, TN safely synchronized Unit 1 back to the grid after a maintenance and refueling outage. This 63-day planned outage contained approximately 16,000 work activities which come together to ensure that the unit runs safely and reliably for the long term.

Thanks @harrysiegel for posing my question to NYC progressive Congressional candidate Brad Lander about nuclear energy and specifically his past opposition, as city council member, to Indian Point. Kudos to Lander for admitting it was an error and that nuclear is important.

SOMEONE BUILT A MAP THAT SHOWS EXACTLY WHERE EVERY POWER PLANT, TRANSMISSION LINE, SUBSTATION & DATA CENTER SITS ON THE US GRID all on one interactive map. all free you can see how the grid is laid out... where the datacenters cluster... which transmission corridors carry the load... where the high-capacity connection points are opengridworks.com/power-plan… zoom into any region and the whole picture comes into focus why energy costs what it costs, why data centers go where they go, why some states are power exporters and others aren't this is the kind of infrastructure visibility that used to require expensive industry reports now it's one tab

12,000 homes is 1/3 of the Bowser admin’s goal and utterly fails to meet the moment. 1500 family sized affordable units by 2035 is only 188 units a year and will not meaningfully contribute to the shortage of family-sized homes in DC. These unambitious goals, in combination with his idea to subsidize demand through the Home Purchase Assistance Program, will drive housing costs even higher.

Just as @MayorBowser is proposing cuts to the Pay Equity Fund that helps increase pay for child care workers, @urbaninstitute has released results from a survey that found that the fund was good for providers and in some prevented increases to the tuition that parents pay.

The President’s threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” cannot be excused away as an attempt to gain leverage in negotiations with Iran. This type of rhetoric is an affront to the ideals our nation has sought to uphold and promote around the world for nearly 250 years. It undermines our long-standing role as a global beacon of freedom and directly endangers Americans both abroad and at home. The oppressive, terror-spreading regime of the Islamic Republic must be distinguished from the people and the civilization of Iran. Everyone involved—especially the President and Iran’s leaders—must de-escalate their unprecedented saber-rattling before it is too late.

Still beating the bots.

Westlaw AI citing accurate sources but inaccurate quotations and case holdings.

Go Vols!

It’s a nice spring day, but hardly peak cherry blossom crowds down by the National Mall and Tidal Basin. But the 15th Street protected lane that the Trump administration will start tearing out next week was still busy with people on bikes and scooters; locals and tourists alike.

So far my own gut-based bracket is handily beating my ChatGPT bracket.

Scoop in today's @heatmap_news AM newsletter: Oklo has received its first license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, allowing the nuclear startup to begin producing and selling isotopes from “across medicine, research, advanced manufacturing, and national security.” The approval makes the California-based company the first of the cohort of fourth-generation reactor startups whose technologies use coolants other than water to get the green light to start up a commercial operation of any kind. Once operational, it will also allow $Oklo to begin generating revenue for the first time. The NRC has given out permits to rival fourth-generation companies only for construction activities. The Bill Gates-backed TerraPower, for instance, was granted permission to begin construction on its first commercial power plant in Wyoming, as was the Google-backed Kairos Power for its demonstration facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The permit for the facility, dubbed Atomic Alchemy and located at the Idaho Radiochemistry Laboratory, authorizes the company to “receive, possess, use, store, and conduct” chemical and mechanical processing, packing, manufacturing, and distribution of a limited amount of Radium-226, which is used to make advanced cancer treatments. “Demand for critical isotopes is rising, but U.S. supply remains limited,” Jacob DeWitte, Oklo’s chief executive and co-founder, said in a statement. “This work helps create a more resilient and dependable domestic supply chain of isotopes and supports the transition from early operations to durable, commercial isotope production in the United States.” The license grants the company a foothold in one of its core businesses. On top of designing liquid sodium-cooled microreactors the startup plans to own and operate for electricity production, Oklo is building out a division to reprocess and recycle nuclear waste into fresh fuel for its power plants. That business, too, would involve extracting and selling high-priced medical isotopes from spent fuel, and Atomic Alchemy lays the groundwork for that future effort. To construct this debut facility, Oklo plans to build four non-power Versatile Isotope Production Reactors systems with a capacity of about 15 megawatts-thermal each.