Energy Week #664 – 2/26/2026

The northern Aral Sea was drying up, but now it is filling up. A US laboratory has developed a particle accelerator that makes it possible to reduce the radioactivity of nuclear spent fuel to the point that it has to be stored securely only 300 years, instead of 100,000. Trump promised coal jobs, but it looks like he won’t deliver them. There are more cancer deaths near nuclear power plants, a huge study shows. A battery system at a Google data center will store 30 GWh of energy. And there is more.
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