Month: October 2026
Federal Judge Blocks $100,000 Fee for H-1B Visas
The Oakland, California-based district judge is the second judge to block the policy.
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First Small Modular Reactor in the U.S. to Be Constructed in Tennessee
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) received approval Tuesday from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to construct the nation’s first commercial small modular reactor (SMR) at its Clinch River site near Oak Ridge.
The NRC issued a construction permit for Clinch River Unit 1, a 300-megawatt GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy BWRX-300 boiling-water reactor. The permit clears TVA to move forward with construction.
Supreme Court Allows Tennessee to Execute Convicted Murderer Christa Pike
Pike was to be executed this morning, but the Sixth Circuit blocked the execution a short time before it was to take place. The justices lifted that stay.
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