Alexander C. Kaufman

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Auf Wiedersehen Atomkraft
Germany’s last nuclear reactors go dark.
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Alexander C. Kaufman
March 2023
The mystery of Biden’s green home debacle
The administration talks a big game on climate-friendly buildings -- so why is it allowing construction of thousands of homes built to outdated…
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Alexander C. Kaufman
An American reactor starts up, a Taiwanese reactor shuts down
Plus an update from my recent trip to Israel.
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Alexander C. Kaufman
February 2023
Waste not
A visit to the Argonne National Laboratory to look at the past and future of nuclear recycling.
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Alexander C. Kaufman
January 2023
Taiwan’s retreat from nuclear power
A dispatch from my reporting trip to Taiwan.
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Alexander C. Kaufman
November 2022
In Brazil, “it’s fucking over!” In Poland, it’s only just beginning.
As COP27 begins, a look at two big emitters.
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Alexander C. Kaufman
October 2022
Profiteering in Puerto Rico
Plus an interview with Ukraine's nuclear chief and a look at carbon pipelines.
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Alexander C. Kaufman
A boon to ‘bomb trains’
How a railroad megamerger could create an attractive new option for shipping Canadian tar-sands oil to U.S. refineries when pipelines fail.
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Alexander C. Kaufman
August 2022
Killed by voters, a controversial energy megaproject may rise from the dead
Another bend in the long, winding road to a decarbonized Northeastern grid.
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Alexander C. Kaufman
The U.S. finally has a climate law. Get ready for more pipelines.
Understanding what the IRA means for CCS.
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Alexander C. Kaufman
This local election is now a battleground in the gas industry’s war for survival
A look at the six-figure sums turning a Washington state House race into a referendum on electrification.
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Alexander C. Kaufman
July 2022
The old grid is dying, and the new grid struggles to be born
Will now be the time of monstrous blackouts?
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Alexander C. Kaufman
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