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Big tech is bringing nuclear power back to life

Having plunged through the 1990s and 2000s, the share of global nuclear power generated by new plants is now rising again. (Image: Pixabay)
Having plunged through the 1990s and 2000s, the share of global nuclear power generated by new plants is now rising again. (Image: Pixabay)

Summary

  • Artificial intelligence needs clean and reliable energy sources

“Nuclear nightmare", screamed the headline in Time magazine on April 9th 1979. One of the two reactors at a nuclear-power plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania had suffered an accident. The governor ordered an evacuation of all vulnerable people within five miles of the plant as radioactive gas escaped.

In the end, the accident resulted in no injuries or loss of life. Two decades later, The Economist visited the Pennsylvania hinterlands and found the second, unproblematic reactor still running well and enjoying strong local support. It cranked out power until it was mothballed in 2019 owing not to safety concerns but to competition from cheap shale gas.

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