Red, white and glowing blue: Trump's push for new reactors reaches the finish line ^36.9%

KUOW Public Radio - By Geoff Brumfiel - 6/29/2026, 9:00 AM

Optimism Bias 20.9% - Pessimism Bias 14.9% - Negativity Bias 13.4%

A little over a year ago, President Trump set an ambitious goal: He wanted to see American companies build at least three new experimental nuclear reactors by July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Shortly after Trump signed an executive order enshrining his goal, the Department of Energy launched its... more

Red, white and glowing blue: Trump's push for new reactors reaches the finish line ^34%

NPR - By Geoff Brumfiel - 6/29/2026, 9:00 AM

Optimism Bias 21.1% - Availability Heuristic 18.8% - Negativity Bias 15.7%

A little over a year ago, President Trump set an ambitious goal: He wanted to see American companies build at least three new experimental nuclear reactors by July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Shortly after Trump signed an executive order enshrining his goal, the Department of Energy launched its... more

Report: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous ^14.9%

NPR - By Geoff Brumfiel, Connie Hanzhang Jin - 6/18/2026, 1:00 PM

Ambiguity (Equivocation) 19.4% - Overconfidence Bias 17% - Negativity Bias 14.4%

Sometime on Oct. 21 of last year, high above the Arctic Circle, a lone missile shot skyward from a Russian island. The missile flew northeast and then banked and began flying in loops for hours over the barren, frozen landscape. According to Russian and Western sources, the new weapon, known in Russian as Burevestnik and by NATO as... more

Report: Russia's nuclear-powered 'Skyfall' missile is dirty and dangerous ^14.7%

NPR - By Geoff Brumfiel, Connie Hanzhang Jin - 6/18/2026, 1:00 PM

Negativity Bias 22.7% - Appeal to Authority 15.5% - Appeal to Emotion 14.1%

Sometime on Oct. 21 of last year, high above the Arctic Circle, a lone missile shot skyward from a Russian island. The missile flew northeast and then banked and began flying in loops for hours over the barren, frozen landscape. According to Russian and Western sources, the new weapon, known in Russian as Burevestnik and by NATO as... more

California chemical tank has cracked causing state of emergency, thousands to evacuate ^3.7%

NPR - By Geoff Brumfiel - 5/24/2026, 10:14 PM

Negativity Bias 23.7% - Availability Heuristic 7% - Optimism Bias 3.3%

Some 50,000 residents of Garden Grove, California remain under an evacuation order Sunday as emergency response teams struggle to deal with a potentially explosive situation at a nearby aerospace manufacturing plant. Here's the latest on what's happening at the plant, and what could yet come. Overnight, the chemical tank appeared to have... more

AI video slop is everywhere, take our quiz to try and spot it ^70.3%

NPR - By Geoff Brumfiel, Sanidhya Sharma - 11/30/2025, 10:00 AM

You're lazing around the living room after a big holiday meal, when your uncle starts flipping through vertical videos. "Did you see that one of the cat snatching that snake out of a dude's bed?" he asks. Is it real? Is it fake? You feel a headache coming on. "We're being overrun by slop," said Mike Caulfield, a co-author of the book... more