When my wife was a kid, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster happened. The next year, she had leukaemia, spent months in a clean room, spent years with chemo and recovery. Nuclear energy will always be personal.
Also, I grew up in two A zones and one C zone around nuclear reactors.
The plant has been operating since September 1969. … Beznau 2 operated under temporary licenses until 3 December 2004, when the Swiss Federal Council removed the limitation. – Beznau
I guess they just discovered it was suddenly safe?
… on the Rhine and close to the border with Germany. – Leibstadt
Lucky how close the borders are! Half the people at risk can’t complain because they can’t vote. Strange how this seems to be a popular nuclear power plant building strategy in densely populated, fragmented political landscapes.
The last significant change to the KKG was the construction of a new storage facility for spent rods. – Gösgen
That’s right. There is no solution for the spent rods for all Swiss nuclear power plants. Whenever they start digging the locals launch political movements to stop it. The solution was ingenious: now such protest must happen at the federal level, not at the local level. And this is how we’ll force that pesky radioactive waste repository on somebody. Genius.
I don’t even want to talk about nuclear energy vs other types of energy. Just use less fucking energy. As long as I see energy being wasted, I don’t feel like I need to accept new power plants into my life. Let alone nuclear power plants.
Let alone artificial intelligence.
Nuclear energy for artificial intelligence:
Google has become the latest tech giant to seek nuclear power as a source for its datacenters and other operations. … Google hopes to spark chain reaction with nuclear energy investment, by Simon Sharwood, for The Register
Three Mile Island, the site of worst nuclear disaster in the United States, is reopening and will exclusively sell the power to Microsoft … Microsoft will purchase the carbon-free energy produced from it to power its data centers to support artificial intelligence. … However, nuclear has drawn criticism for environmental groups for decades for its waste. The US still has no permanent repository for that waste, instead storing it at over 70 operating and shuttered plants around the nation. – Three Mile Island is reopening and selling its power to Microsoft, by Jordan Valinsky, for CNN
Google hopes to spark chain reaction with nuclear energy investment
Three Mile Island is reopening and selling its power to Microsoft
I can't wait for the next AI winter.
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