There is going to be an attempt to bring back online Three Mile Island, where one of the reactors of the nuclear plant partially melted down in 1979. https://www.pennlive.com/news/2024/09/plan-to-restart-three-mile-island-nuclear-plant-unveiled.html
...and will sell the power to microsoft, who need "clean" energy credits to compensate for their power hungry AI datacenters elsewhere. What's the plan for the spent nuclear fuel? Is it going to sit in cooling pools onsite for tens of years, as was done at Fukushima?
@w7voa You just know this was the “brainwave” of some brain-dead exec who sniffed a couple bucks in the air.
@w7voa This is actually really great. It’s mothballed infra that can be upgraded and made perfectly safe (insofar as the nominal risks)
They're also considering bringing back the Titanic, the Hindenburg, and Carrot Top.
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I'll believe it once it happens as all things announced by the nuclear industry plus we know that the cost is going to be higher than if solar and batteries were instead installed as whatever numbers they've provided at the beginning never end up representing reality.
