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  ❤️ Donate Wednesday, September 30, 2026 🌤️ Partly sunny, with a high near 70. Good Morning Boston, Today's the final day of our Fall Fundraiser. If WBUR is part of your daily routine, we're asking: will you support the journalism you depend on? Your gift today keeps us here for Boston tomorrow. Donate here . Now, to the news: Nuclear options: Leaders from all six New England states are gathering in Lowell today to discuss what role — if any — nuclear power could play in helping to meet the region's growing electricity demands. As WBUR's Miriam Wasser reports, the one-day summit will focus on advanced nuclear technology , rather than the big, traditional plants. And it includes sessions about safety and waste. "We have a regional grid, and it's important to get together with our colleagues to talk about what we're going to do as a community of states to work on our additional resource needs in the future," said Rebecca Tepper , the state's ener...

  ADVERTISEMENT New from  CommonWealth Beacon COMPETITIVENESS:   Gov. Maura Healey’s top economic development official and state lawmakers  musings at a recent budget hearing  about affordability in the nation’s second-most expensive state centered on one buzzword: competitiveness, Jennifer Smith reports. OPINION:  A change in guard at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority should bring with it  a new focus to clean up  the Mystic and Charles rivers, write Paul Levy, a former MWRA executive director, and Emily Norton, the head of the Charles River Watershed Association.   Healey’s shift toward nuclear energy raises affordability, feasibility questions   March 11, 2026 By  jordan wolman A push from Gov. Maura Healey to expand nuclear power in the state is taking nascent steps forward and stirring debate around how Massachusetts should contend with the Trump administration’s opposition to wind power, which not long ago was the pillar of th...