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Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for AI energy demands. (www.cnbc.com)

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Three Mile Island was the worst nuclear accident in US history. Was mainly caused by poor design of human feedback systems which caused operational confusion and lead to a catastrophic failure.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Nuclear power plants don't make nuclear bombs...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Some nuclear reactor designs can be used for breeding plutonium, as well as for producing power. It was a bigger issue in the past, though; nowadays there are plenty of well tested designs that aren't capable of breeding plutonium

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh really? Neat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thorium was being tested for viability alongside uranium, and got scrapped not because it wasn't a feasible design, but because it couldn't produce weapon grade material as a byproduct. Some countries are finally exploring thorium again, hopefully with some success.