If Minnesota doesn’t lift its 32-year-old ban on new nuclear power reactors soon, it could blow through a self-imposed 2040 deadline to clean up its electric grid. That was one of the messages

About 200 gallons of oil has leaked out of the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant in southern Minnesota, according to Xcel Energy.

The Hunterston B power station in North Ayrshire has officially been signed over to the Nuclear Authority for decommissioning. In a first-of-its-kind project, the transfer also includes more than 240 of the plant’s own workers who will begin the mammoth task of dismantling the nuclear facilities and removing radioactive waste.

Nine countries now possess nuclear weapons and we have just seen the start of a new war in the Middle East over one more nation supposedly trying to acquire them. While we consider the dangers of such weapons and their capacity to cause massive destruction,