A rare species of bees prevented Mark Zuckerberg from building a nuclear data center
Mark Zuckerberg faces an unexpected obstacle in the competition to create infrastructure for artificial intelligence — a rare species of bee that lives at the site of the potential construction of the nuclear-powered Meta data center.
Google is becoming a nuclear giant — the company has signed an agreement with a modular reactor developer
Google has just signed a power purchase agreement with nuclear power startup Kairos Power, with delivery starting in 2030 and a 500 MW deployment by 2035.
«Energoatom» will build a new NPP with a capacity of more than 4 GW
NNEGC «Energoatom» announced the revival of the Chyhyryn NPP construction project. The unfinished nuclear power plant near Chyhyryn, Cherkasy region, will receive four power units based on the American AP1000 technology with a capacity of 1.1 GW each.
Electric cars and AI are to blame: the US complained about electricity shortages that «threaten» the economy and national security
The largest utility companies in the United States warn that the country is facing a surge in electricity demand unseen in decades. Failure to quickly increase electricity production could jeopardize the US economy.
«Nobody will guess»: Finnish nuclear waste repository for 100,000 years of storage will have no external signs
The world’s first permanent repository for nuclear fuel waste will open later this year on Olkiluoto, a sparsely populated Finnish island with lush forests in the Baltic Sea three hours north of Helsinki. The «Onkalo» (Finnish for «cavity» or «cave») is one of the most modern facilities of its kind, designed to store nuclear waste 450…
«Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters»: Can Nuclear Accidents Happen Again?
On this day, 38 years ago, an accident occurred at the fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It was the largest man-made disaster in history and remains so. After that, Fukushima happened, and then the Russians came to ZNPP, the most powerful nuclear power plant in Europe. The recent shelling of Ukraine’s energy […]
Russian shelling de-energizes «Neutron source» — nuclear subcritical facility in Kharkiv
It is reported that the plant is currently operating on emergency diesel generators.
Eerie drone footage from Fukushima shows what a nuclear reactor looks like after an accident
The drone’s camera captured damage from inside the containment vessel of Reactor 1, which suffered the most during the radiation accident at the First Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant in 2011.
White House: Russia is developing anti-satellite weapons, but «no immediate threat»
The Biden administration, citing intelligence data, confirmed that Russia is developing anti-satellite weapons — although they are currently «not active and do not pose an immediate threat».
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