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. - eviltoast

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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    2 months ago

    How long does that waste need to be safely stored and what are the projected costs there? How do they compare to solar that you can deploy today?

    We are not running out of space to put power generation, but we definitely need to worry about costs.