Competition for critical minerals used in the energy, manufacturing, and tech sectors is heating up to be a major geopolitical flashpoint around the world. The

Chevron is cutting up to 9,000 jobs this year. That’s a fifth of its global workforce, gone, while it digests the $53 billion Hess deal.

The world is turning toward nuclear power as a solution to the increasingly dire energy trilemma – the tricky issue of sourcing energy that is