By Kennedy Maize In a largely unnoticed move last month (April 20) President Trump issued five separate but intimately connected “presidential determinations” under the terms of the 1950 Defense Production Act (DPA) essentially claiming broad control over the entire U.S. energy economy. In the announcements, Trump also cited his January 20, 2025 Executive Order 14156 … More Power grab: Trump asserts control over all U.S. energy

By Kennedy Maize The most mature U.S. small modular nuclear reactor vendor — NuScale Power — and a politically connected firm planning to build perhaps the largest reactor project in the U.S. to power an enormous Texas data center — Fermi America — have both suffered recent, major, possibly existential blows.  NuScale and Fermi, both … More Trouble bubbles up for NuScale and Fermi America