A just transition means moving to a cleaner economy without sacrificing workers, communities, or low-income households along the way. It sounds obvious. It isn’t. Here’s what the just transition really is, why it exists, how it works, where it gets messy, and why the energy transition can go from noble to ridiculous the second people are treated like spare parts.

Small modular reactors, or SMRs, are the nuclear industry’s attempt to stop building gigantic one-off monsters and start building smaller, factory-made reactors that can be shipped, stacked, and deployed where big plants make no sense. Here’s how SMRs work, why they exist, where they’re showing up, and why the idea is both exciting and suspiciously complicated.

Nuclear fission sounds like the kind of thing you should only discuss in a bunker with three physicists and a lockbox. It is actually much simpler than that. Split a heavy atom, collect the heat, boil water, spin a turbine, make electricity. Here’s what nuclear fission is, why it exists, how it works, where it shows up in real life, and why it matters more right now than a lot of people realize.