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250 Years of Not Learning a Single Thing
The 4th of July, a time when many Americans celebrate the founding of their country. This year is particularly momentous this year, as it is the 250th year since this country’s founding. Our president wants to celebrate this momentous occasion by starting up (or “going critical”) three untested, unlicensed, unregulated reactors—of course, creating more nuclear……
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The Buzz About Chornobyl: 40 Years Later, by Ann McCann
The Buzz About Chornobyl, 40 Years Later. How Do We Tell the Bees? No, the bees in the Chornobyl exclusion zone (CEZ) are not mutated–in the visual ways we think of–nor are they glow-in-the-dark. They didn’t turn into giant, killer bees, and they don’t light up green at night. But what they did do was……
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More Vaporware than Hardware? Meta’s Nuclear Fig Leaf for AI’s Exploding Emissions and Energy Costs
Meta announced three new deals with nuclear power companies last week, claiming they add up to a massive amount of “clean” energy to power its AI data centers: 6,600 megawatts (MW), equal to six of the new reactors that recently came online in Georgia. Meta claims it will be receiving all of that power from……
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