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Beyond generating about 43 percent of Connecticut’s electricity and nearly all its emission-free power, the Millstone plant employs some 1,500 people that support the surrounding community in a wide variety of ways.

Hotter temperatures matter in the energy sector because summer months stress the electrical grid significantly more than winter months. But when summer brings extreme heat, nuclear provides reliable, clean electricity to the grid to keep you cool.

If the seemingly never-ending onslaught of climate news is making you feel hopeless, anxious, depressed or all of the above, you’re not alone.

In the United States, levels of nitrogen oxide—a pollutant closely tied to higher emphysema risk in the study—would increase by more than 26 percent without nuclear energy

Not many issues have bridged the left-right political divide in Washington, D.C., the way that advanced nuclear technology has. This bipartisan congressional support in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives will help advanced reactors—and the clean energy future they promise—become a reality.

As the internet prepares to raid Area 51 for aliens, NASA is using nuclear energy to go to deep space, seeking signs of extraterrestrial life on Saturn’s largest moon, Titan.

If we look at the map of billion-dollar summer weather events—including droughts, flooding, severe storms, tropical cyclones, hurricanes and wildfires—we can see that the Southeast, Midwest, Southern Plains and Mid-Atlantic regions have suffered through a significant number of them. Luckily, these states are home to many of the nuclear power plants in the nation.

Efforts to protect the climate took a major step this week as Ohio became the latest state to take steps to preserve its nuclear plants, ensuring that its largest source of emissions-free power stays on the grid.

Over the past 30 years, Korsnick has carved a path from engineer, to senior reactor operator, to site vice president, to president and CEO in a male-dominated industry.

Maybe it was inevitable that when 20 candidates appear together in the span of four hours total that no one issue was going to get an in-depth treatment. Leading up to the two-night series last week, concerned citizens like myself wondered where climate and energy would fall into the first round of the Democratic presidential debates.