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Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: As COVID cases spike across the U.S., here's a silver lining. There's been a steady increase in the number of people who are getting vaccinated. In Louisiana, the daily rate has gone up by more than 300%, according to the White House. This is a race against the delta variant because even as vaccinations climb, Louisiana recorded more than 7,500 new coronavirus cases over just a few days. Here's what the governor, John Bel Edwards, told NPR this morning. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED NPR BROADCAST) JOHN BEL EDWARDS: We'r...

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Oil and gas interests in the Permian Basin have aligned with environmentalists to oppose Holtec's plan Holtec says the project will provide hundreds of good paying jobs in New Mexico Communities across the nation that are stuck with spent nuclear fuel are anxious to send the waste out west so they can begin redeveloping sites that housed nuclear power plants. It’s easy to tell when boom time has arrived on the wind-swept streets of Carlsbad, New Mexico, 2,000 miles away from the shores of the Hudson River and its iconic nuclear towers of Indian Point. When the western state's Permian Basi...

Holtec's hopes for an underground repository of spent fuel could help New Mexico's boom-and-bust economy and free other sites of the canisters.

The Railway Magazine  is back for another month of award-winning photos, news, features and exclusives from the rail industry, past and present. This month’s The Railway Magazine covers the show-stealing Legendary Lady at the Severn Valley Railway Gala, plus take a look at the FREE The World of Railwayana supplement. Here’s what is coming up in the May issue: Scots Guardsman For this instalment of Practice & Performance, John Heaton analyses preserved steam on the main line, looking at No. 46115 and other ex-LMS locos on the ascent of Shap and Ais Gill summits. Gresley: A master remember...