By C. Stone | Stone News Network
About 3,400 jobs will be created and bring in more than $3 billion dollars to power up Microsoft's artificial intelligence servers. It's scheduled to re-open in 2028, and will be called 'Crane Clean Energy Center' in honor of Chris Crane. He was the CEO of Constellation Energy.
“Powering industries critical to our nation’s global economic and technological competitiveness, including data centers, requires an abundance of energy that is carbon-free and reliable every hour of every day, and nuclear plants are the only energy sources that can consistently deliver on that promise,” said Joe Dominguez, Constellation Energy's president and CEO.
There was a partial nuclear meltdown at Three Mile Island back on March 28, 1979. Two of the plant's nuclear reactor cooling mechanisms failed. None of those reactors will be used for Microsoft's data center power.
The reactor officially shut down in 2019, after a bill to bail out the plant failed - due to the fact it could not make energy cheap enough to be competitive.
People forget that radioactive material may remain active for hundreds of thousands of years - even after being partially depleted in a power plant. It has to be stored somewhere - usually in deep underground vaults surrounded by natural salt.
Time will tell what happens.
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