Cooling Nuclear Power Politics 
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 9, 2025
The demand for cooling adds to the “business as usual” electricity needed to keep our economy humming. In Pennsylvania, this increasingly means electricity needed to power Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Mechanisms for cooling data centers contribute to water use and impact and significantly add to their electricity demand.
Physics World
AUGUST 13, 2025
There’s a kilowatt in a square metre of sunlight,” she told him, “which means a gigawatt in a square kilometre – only about the space of a nuclear power plant.” A few weeks after entering, he joined the Free Speech Movement to protest against the university’s ban on campus political activities. Cancel subsidies on corn ethanol?
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Circle of Blue
MAY 29, 2025
In January, executives at Constellation Energy startled the world with their plan to restart the closed and cold 840-megawatt Unit 1 reactor at Three Mile Island nuclear power station, site of one of the most dangerous meltdowns in atomic history. Power plants could activate one reactor and generate revenue as they install the next.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 16, 2025
March was also the first month in history in which non-fossil resources (renewable energy and nuclear power) supplied more than half of US electricity. Resilient energy that isn’t laid low by fuel-line disruptions or a lack of cooling water. Massive natural resources in the wind, the sun, the earth, and water.
Physics World
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Mention “nuclear power” and attention almost immediately turns to safety. Despite huge advances in nuclear technology in recent decades, everyone still thinks about the accidents that occurred at older reactors like Chernobyl , Three Mile Island or Fukushima. Dozens of countries don’t even have – or don’t want – nuclear power.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Political and social science must come to the fore to help develop effective responses to tipping events. This means redoubling efforts to cut emissions, and reliably constrain temperature rises, not gambling on speculative technological interventions to cool the planet. The missing knowledge is not primarily natural science.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2024
Forty-five years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. commercial nuclear power industry. The cooling down process, however, took a month and the radioactive plant would take years to decontaminate.
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