Last October, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a high-ranking U.S. official toured a research facility in Everett and delivered a line to reporters straight out of a bygone era of belligerence. “We are in a worldwide nuclear competition.”
Okay, Jennifer Granholm didn’t mean it that way. The Secretary of Energy hadn’t descended on this Washington to escalate tensions with a foreign adversary. Instead, she’d arrived here, donning a shiny blue safety helmet and protective glasses, to boost an unlikely energy source for addressing the universal threat of climate change.
Even as workers clean up a toxic mess in Hanford, commercial operators mothball old nuclear
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