ENVIRONMENT

Advance Nuclear Energy X-Energy Bets Big on Maryland Amid Concerns About Small Modular Reactors

Advanced-reactor developer X-energy will move its headquarters to Gaithersburg and open a new test-and-training center in Frederick, promising 525 new jobs and cementing Maryland’s bid to lead the next wave of clean-energy manufacturing. However, skepticism around small modular reactor (SMR) economics, waste…

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This Professor Turned Her Classroom Into a Climate Innovation Lab — Here’s What the World Can Learn Ahead of COP 30

As diplomats finalize agendas for November’s COP 30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil—a gathering already overshadowed by 2024’s unprecedented 1.5°C temperature breach—I can’t help but think back to the first time I met Dr. Shirley Mo Ching Yeung. It was 2019 at…

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