The lights are turning back on at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, the site of America’s worst nuclear meltdown, after it has lain dormant for 5 years. The clean energy will be used to power AI servers and the electricity it generates will be sold to one company: Microsoft. Reviving nuclear power plants has drawn support from Silicon Valley executives like Elon Musk, but what does it take to actually restart one of these plants?
WSJ went inside the nuclear plant to learn the steps it takes to restart the clean energy source and examined the regulations in place in order to restart these reactors.
Chapters:
0:00 Demand for nuclear power
1:07 The steps to restart
4:11 The 1979 meltdown and cleanup
4:52 The regulations to restart
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