Three Mile Island Reopening: Powering Microsoft's AI Ambitions with Nuclear Energy
In a significant development for both the nuclear energy sector and the tech industry, Three Mile Island, the site of the most infamous nuclear accident in U.S. history, is set to reopen. After its 2019 closure...
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proponents of reactors have spent some $645 million in the last decade lobbying Congress for more subsidies. ….A critical moment is coming soon, when Obama goes to Congress to request an additional $36 billion in loan guarantees for new nukes in his 2012 budget.With them, America’s atomic...
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Explosions. Radiation. Evacuations. More than 30 years after Three Mile Island, the unfolding crisis in Japan has brought back some of the worst nightmares surrounding nuclear power — and restarted a major debate about the merits and the drawbacks of this energy...
Japan has reclassified the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant, now placing it at five on the International Nuclear Events Scale.
A level four event is classified by the International Atomic Energy Agency as being an accident with local consequences, while a level five incident is...
Tokyo (CNN) -- Japan's nuclear safety agency on Friday worsened its assessment of problems at the Fukushima nuclear power plant as soldiers and utility workers continued a frantic effort to hose down overheating nuclear fuel with water cannons.
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency raised...
US Energy Secretary Steven Chu told Congress Wednesday that Japan's ongoing nuclear crisis appears "more serious" than the 1979 Three Mile Island partial reactor meltdown.
Chu's comments came in response to a question comparing the incidents from Representative Ed Whitfield, a Kentucky...