This week on “Sunday Morning” (March 9)

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COVER STORY: Big Tech’s big bet on nuclear power | Watch Video
Faced with increasing demand for energy to fuel artificial intelligence, and the need to cut down on carbon emissions, companies like Microsoft, Google and Amazon have announced major investments in nuclear power. Correspondent David Pogue visits Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, where a reactor is expected to be restarted; and Oak Ridge, Tenn., where a demonstration “modular” power plant is being built, to find out if nuclear power can help fuel the AI revolution.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Living near Three Mile Island (Video)

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ALMANAC: March 9 (Video)
“Sunday Morning” looks back at historical events on this date.

U.S.: Prison labor, an invisible workforce of the U.S. economy (Video)
Incarcerated workers produce $2 billion in goods and $9 billion in services every year. But not all of the incarcerated are paid for their labor, which can benefit people inside and outside a prison’s walls. Correspondent Luke Burbank looks at ways in which indentured servitude is still legal in the U.S., and talks with incarcerated workers at Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution who make the popular denim workwear brand Prison Blues.

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THEATER: “Buena Vista Social Club” serenades Broadway | Watch Video
In 1996, a group of elderly, mostly forgotten Cuban musicians recorded an album that became a critical and commercial phenomenon worldwide. Now, the Grammy Award-winning “Buena Vista Social Club” has inspired a Broadway musical. Correspondent Martha Teichner talks with Cuban bandleader Juan de Marcos González about assembling the original players; writer Marco Ramirez and director Saheem Ali, about creating the imagined origin story of the musicians and their Havana nightclub; and journalist Judy Cantor-Navas, about how the infectious music of Cuba crosses boundaries.

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WORLD: Treasures of San Gennaro (Video)
Devotional objects made of gold and gems, donated over the past five centuries to honor San Gennaro, the patron saint of Naples, are kept in a vault-like museum in the southern Italian city. Correspondent Seth Doane gets a glimpse of the priceless jewels, and talks with those charged with safeguarding this incalculably valuable treasure.

RECIPE: Neapolitan babà rum cakes

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PASSAGE: In memoriam (Video)
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the notable figures who left us this week, including jazz vibraphonist Roy Avers.

SPORTS: Lindsey Vonn on skiing the comeback trail | Watch Video
In the world of alpine skiing, few have been more decorated than Olympian and World Cup Champion Lindsey Vonn. Fast, fearless and resilient, she fought her way back after every crash, until she retired at 34. But now, with a titanium knee replacement, Vonn is eyeing one more trip to the Olympics, in 2026. She talks with correspondent Lee Cowan about her love of the sport, and her goal to fly high once again.

EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Lindsey Vonn on her return to competitive skiing (Video)
In this web exclusive, Olympic downhill skier Lindsey Vonn discusses the reasons behind getting a knee replacement; what she discovered about herself upon retirement; the preparations necessary to re-enter competitive racing after several years away from the sport; the mental vs. physical aspects of downhill skiing; and her joy from her ski run after surgery: “I could do the thing that I loved the most in the world without pain.”

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HARTMAN: A Baltimore doctor’s patients come to his aid (Video)
Dr. Michael Zollicoffer is a 66-year-old private family practitioner in Baltimore. His spirit is infectious, and his patients have been on the receiving end of his generous care for years. But after Zollicoffer was diagnosed with two cancers, it was his patients who were doing the giving. Steve Hartman reports.       

TV: John Mulaney on “Everybody’s Live,” sobriety and fatherhood | Watch Video
The Emmy Award-winning comedian and former “SNL” writer John Mulaney became a superstar as a stand-up. And now, he’s sitting down, as host of a talk show on Netflix. He talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about “Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney.” He also discusses when he first realized he was funny; a 2020 intervention which he describes as “star-studded”; how he deals with sobriety today; and how fatherhood has changed his outlook.

EXTENDED VIDEO: John Mulaney on his standup persona (Video)
In this web exclusive, standup comedian John Mulaney talks with correspondent Tracy Smith about his earliest experience learning about jokes; developing his on-stage persona (and why it involves a suit); why he’s happiest writing for other people; and how he approaches his sobriety after having gone through rehab and becoming a father of two children.

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ARTS: Fighting for the return of Nazi-looted art | Watch Video
New guidelines agreed to last year by 21 nations (including the United States), and a recent law unanimously approved by the French Parliament, may make it easier for Jewish families to claim ownership of artworks that they believe were sold under duress as the Nazis took over Europe. Correspondent Barry Petersen talks with art experts about the challenges of authenticating the provenance of Nazi-looted art; and with Jewish family members for whom restitution, eight decades after the Holocaust, is a form of “belated justice.”

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NATURE: Sandhill cranes in Nebraska (Extended Video)
We leave you this Sunday morning amid the sights and sounds of the great spring migration of sandhill cranes in Grand Island, Nebraska. Videographer: Kevin Kjergaard. 
   

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THE BOOK REPORT: Washington Post critic Ron Charles (March 9) | Watch Video
The “Sunday Morning” book reviewer offers his picks for the best new titles among fiction and non-fiction releases.  

BOOK EXCERPT: “Dream State” by Eric Puchner
An Oprah’s Book Club pick, this latest novel from the author of “Model Home” is a sweeping saga about how choices – big and small – shape lives and families for decades.

BOOK EXCERPT: “Dream Count” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
In her long-awaited return to fiction, the author of “Americanah” presents her intricately-woven novel that explores love, ambition, family expectations, and the forces that shape women’s choices.

BOOK EXCERPT: “The Antidote” by Karen Russell
The bestselling author of “Swamplandia!” and “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” returns with a Nebraska Dust Bowl-era tale of a prairie witch, who stores the memories that townsfolk don’t want to carry.

BOOK EXCERPT: “Martha Stewart’s Gardening Handbook”
Stewart’s biggest gardening book in more than 30 years offers her expertise to green thumbs of all levels.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Living near Three Mile Island (Video)
In 1980, one year after the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Pennsylvania, citizens at a town hall protested plans to release radioactive krypton gas still trapped in a containment building. In this “Sunday Morning” report that originally aired March 30, 1980, correspondent Richard Wagner talked with nearby residents about the uncertainty, anxiety, anger and sense of loss they experienced in their lives following the accident, as well as distrust with the government and utility officials over the future of the plant. [The remaining working reactor at Three Mile Island was shut down in 2019. There are plans to bring it back online in three years.]

GALLERY: Notable deaths in 2025
A look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who’d touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.

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