Aus Fehlern lernen: Das ist auch im #Strahlenschutz absolut notwendig, um Mensch und Umwelt in der Zukunft noch besser zu schützen.
Ein Unfall in einem Kernkraftwerk nahe der US-amerikanischen Stadt Harrisburg im Jahr 1979 führte zum Beispiel zu vielen Neuerungen bei den Sicherheitsstandards für Kernkraftwerke in den USA und bei der Ausbildung des Personals eines KKW.
Was damals genau im Kernkraftwerk #ThreeMileIsland passiert ist, erfahrt ihr hier:
Today in Labor History March 28, 1979: Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant, in Pennsylvania, had a level-5 partial meltdown, the worst nuclear power accident in U.S. history, and one of the worst in the world, prior to Chernobyl. TMI operators had not been adequately trained to handle the type of malfunction that led to the meltdown and, consequently, a delay in mitigation efforts. Clean-up began in 1993, at a cost of $2 billion in today’s dollars. Officials concluded that the release of radioactive material from the plant did not raise exposure levels of nearby residents to a level that would increase cancer cases by even one additional case. However, anti-nuclear groups hired their own independent investigators who found that radiation levels in the area were significantly elevated. A peer-reviewed study by Dr. Steven Wing found a significant increase in cancers from 1979-1985 among people living within ten miles of TMI. And in 2009, Dr. Wing said that the amount of radiation released during the accident was likely "thousands of times greater" than the NRC's estimates.
In 2024, Bill Gates obtained exclusive rights to the “carbon-free” energy from TMI, once it reopens, to power his Artificial Intelligence farms, starting in 2028. Other Tech Barons are also looking to exploit nuclear power for their energy-hungry AI farms. Data centers currently account for about 1 to 1.5 percent of global electricity use. NVIDIA will be shipping out over 1.5 million AI server units per year by 2027. These servers, alone, would consume at over 85.4 terawatt-hours of electricity annually, more than many small countries use in a year. Yet, the U.S. still has no permanent radioactive waste storage facilities. As of 2023, the U.S. had roughly 88,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors, and all of this is stranded at the reactor sites. Experts expect this number to grow by 2,000 metric tons each year.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/energy/three-mile-island-microsoft-ai/index.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ai-boom-could-use-a-shocking-amount-of-electricity/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-is-piling-up-does-the-u-s-have-a-plan/
Eric Epstein lebt unweit des 1979 havarierten Reaktors Three Mile Island 2 Harrisburg. Mit der Initiative Three Mile Island Alert kämpft er gegen die Wiederinbetriebnahme des 2019 eingemotteten Schwesterreaktors TMI 1. Ein Porträt aus dem aktuellen .ausgestrahlt-Magazin:
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President Jimmy Carter
Tribute to President Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter’s Groove - Single by Michael Droste
https://music.apple.com/us/album/jimmy-carters-groove-single/1787812791
Tribute: Jimmy Carter’s Groove - complete song
https://youtu.be/udHfLNyMo3o
Jimmy Carter’s Groove - complete song
https://youtu.be/lHBID2vnkiI
Jimmy Carter’s Groove - complete song
https://youtu.be/udHfLNyMo3o
Boss Byproducts: Corium Is Man-Made Lava - So now we’ve talked about all kinds of byproducts, including man-made (Fordite), n... - https://hackaday.com/2024/11/27/boss-byproducts-corium-is-man-made-lava/ #threemileisland #chemistryhacks #originalart #chernobyl #fukushima #featured #interest #concrete #meltdown #history #fission #corium #fusion
Remember how #Skynet and #Terminators were just fine with a #nuclear devastated world? Hmmm... #BigTech is going all in on #NuclearPower as sustainability concerns around #AI grow
Yahoo Finance
Daniel Howley
October 23, 2024
"#ArtificialIntelligence has driven shares of tech companies like #Microsoft (#MSFT), #Amazon (#AMZN), #Nvidia (N#VDA), and #Google (GOOG, GOOGL) to new highs this year. But the technology, which companies promise will revolutionize our lives, is driving something else just as high as stock prices: #EnergyConsumption [and #WaterConsumption].
"#AI #DataCenters use huge amounts of power and could increase energy demand by as much as 20% over the next decade, according to a Department of Energy spokesperson. Pair that with the continued growth of the broader cloud computing market, and you’ve got an energy squeeze.
"But Big Tech has also set ambitious sustainability goals focused on the use of low-carbon and zero-carbon sources to reduce its impact on climate change. While renewable energy like solar and wind are certainly part of that equation, tech companies need uninterruptible power sources. And for that, they’re leaning into #NuclearPower.
"Tech giants aren’t just planning to hook into existing plants, either. They’re working with energy companies to bring mothballed facilities like Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island back online and looking to build small modular reactors (#SMRs) that take up less space than traditional plants and, the hope is, are cheaper to construct.
"But there are still plenty of questions as to whether these investments in nuclear energy will ever pan out, not to mention how long it will take to build any new reactors."
Read more:
https://www.aol.com/finance/big-tech-going-nuclear-power-201418756.html
#technooptimism #artificialintelligence #nuclear #history
“the irony of reviving a dying and dangerous 20th century #technology to power a 21st century #technology that also promises miracles and has high environmental and human costs”
“Rather than how to meet #AI’s voracious energy demands, #ThreeMileIsland might provide a historical vantage to consider whether to power this future at all” https://undark.org/2024/10/17/opinion-irony-of-powering-ai-on-atomic-energy/
Amazon, Google and Microsoft Are Investing in Nuclear Power - Large technology companies are investing billions of dollars in nuclear energy as an emis... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/business/energy-environment/amazon-google-microsoft-nuclear-energy.html #alternativeandrenewableenergy #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #greenhousegasemissions #electriclightandpower #threemileisland(pa) #helionenergyinc #energyandpower #nuclearenergy #globalwarming #amazon.cominc
@StillIRise1963 And we're restarting #ThreeMileIsland ? 
„What are the odds? US nuke plants ranked by quake risk
Nuclear power plants built in the areas usually thought of as earthquake zones, such as the California coastline, are no longer those with the highest risk of an earthquake causing core damage. We rank all 104 reactors in the U.S. from NRC data. „
Who likes to play lottery?
#nuclear #threemileisland #atom #akw #nuclearenergy #earthquake
"Microsoft announced on 20 September that it had struck a 20-year deal to purchase energy from a dormant nuclear power plant that will be brought back online. And not just any plant: Three Mile Island, the facility in Londonderry Township, Pennsylvania, that was the site of the worst-ever nuclear accident on US soil when a partial meltdown of one of its reactors occurred in 1979."
#Microsoft's Rad New Perk: A Lifetime Supply of Potassium Iodide
https://isglitch.com/article/20240922-microsofts-rad-new
