Re-starting Three Mile Island reactor to power data centers?

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a bad idea also there went the property values!

[Anonymous]

Boy there are some interesting articles about this when you look it up and hit the news tab.

"I’m willing to give an intelligent computer system the benefit of the doubt, even if the whole thing seems, on the surface, to be insane. Criminally insane. Psychotic, even."

https://pagosadailypost.com/2024/09/23/ready-fire-aim-a-few-idle-thoughts-about-three-mile-island/

[Anonymous]

Nuclear energy is the future.

[Anonymous]

Separate from the nuclear or not issue, which I will leave to others to debate, I have a fundamental problem with federal guarantees for a $1.6B loan to reopen the plant in order to service just one customer, and without any current demand - this is all for projected demand. Microsoft has plenty of money; if they want this plant opened, they can guarantee the loan.

If it were because of broad-based current demand, that's one thing. But if Microsoft backs out or something happens to its plans, the taxpayers may be left holding the bag (and I an skeptical that any risk the the taxpayer is "negligible," as Constellation claims).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Separate from the nuclear or not issue, which I will leave to others to debate, I have a fundamental problem with federal guarantees for a $1.6B loan to reopen the plant in order to service just one customer, and without any current demand - this is all for projected demand. Microsoft has plenty of money; if they want this plant opened, they can guarantee the loan.

If it were because of broad-based current demand, that's one thing. But if Microsoft backs out or something happens to its plans, the taxpayers may be left holding the bag (and I an skeptical that any risk the the taxpayer is "negligible," as Constellation claims).

+1. And frankly the fact that it’s for AI just reinforces that. We’re going to do this so bing can give us summaries of search results that will need to be checked anyway?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nuclear energy is the future.

No wind and solar!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is credible. France has made nuclear 80% of their generation share for decades. It’s totally possible.

In August 2024, France's electricity production was 39,376 GWh. In June 2024, the United States produced 389,784 GWh of electricity. About 19% of the US grid is nuclear supplied or about 74,000 GWh. Right now wind and solar are 18% or roughly twice what France’s total power capacity.

Solar and wind generation are growing so fast that by 2035 they are projected to be 60-80% of the US electrical power generation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nuclear energy is the future.

It's also the end.

Until nuclear waste can be dealt with efficiently, there is no future with a power source that is nuclear based.