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Big tech is bringing nuclear power back to life
Artificial intelligence needs clean and reliable energy sources
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“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.
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Business October 12th 2024
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