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Sources and methods. The crown jewels of the intelligence community.

Shorthand for, how do we know what's real?

Who told us?

If you have those answers, you're on the inside.

And NPR wants to bring you there.

From the Pentagon to the State Department to spy agencies,

listen to understand what's really happening and what it means for you.

Sources and Methods, the new National Security podcast from NPR.

Hey, good morning. Patricia Murphy here. It's Saturday. This is Seattle now.

Today we're bringing you the best from another KUOW podcast, booming.

Our power grid is maxing out.

We're plugging in electric cars, massive data centers, and heat pumps all at once.

And the increasing demand is spiking energy bills, but big tech is betting on a solution straight out of science fiction.

Could nuclear fusion fix our growing electricity crisis?

Joshua McNichols and Monica Nicholsberg from KUOW's booming podcast have this story.

Nuclear fusion.

It's the same reaction that lights up the sun, and it's happening right here in the rainy Pacific Northwest.

It truly could be the one-size-fits-all, universal, holy grail energy solution that helps us clean up our planet.

I'm Monica Nicholsberg.

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