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Chornobyl 40 Years On
In April of 1986 I was three years old. I have no memory of those days, of the fear and confusion surrounding the events at a Soviet power station in Ukraine. No one knew what the impacts would be; it was the first time in human history that the core of a recently operating nuclear…
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Small Modular Reactors
https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-are-small-modular-reactors-smrs Tech giants are signing deals with nuclear power companies to supply energy to their data centers. Many of these deals revolve around unproven Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). This is a relatively new term for most people, so I figured it as worth it to dig in a little to help it make sense. First…
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Three Mile Island Restart
Constellation Energy (full disclosure – I work for them) announced plans to restart Three Mile Island Unit 1 after a power purchase deal was signed with Microsoft. This deal is intended to power data centers to support Microsoft’s AI push. The internet reacted with the expected doom and gloom whenever nuclear power is mentioned, with…
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