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Tech firms claim nuclear will solve AI's power needs – they're wrong

Some AI firms think nuclear power can help meet the electricity demand from Silicon Valley’s data centres, but building new nuclear power stations takes too long to plug the gap in the short term

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Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station

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Annie Jacobsen: Everything I learned about nuclear war shocked me

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Safe, extra long-life nuclear batteries could soon be a reality

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Safe, extra long-life nuclear batteries could soon be a reality
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President Trump says the US will pull out of a nuclear treaty

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Trump pulling the US out of a nuclear treaty is anything but smart

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Is North Korea really scrapping its nuclear weapons programme?

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Is North Korea really scrapping its nuclear weapons programme?

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Trump’s Iran U-turn could restart the global nuclear arms race

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Trump says the Iran nuclear deal is bad. Here's why he's wrong

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North Korea's nuclear-free pledge comes with a massive catch

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Old Scientist: Safety first, from fly killer to plutonium

There are a terrifying number of ways to be unsafe, as a look through the April archives of New Scientist shows

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US cyberweapons have been stolen and there's nothing we can do

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Maths can make sense of Trump’s ‘madman’ North Korea strategy

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Trump’s U-turn may see Iran join North Korea as a nuclear state

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The blushing Englishman who stole nuclear secrets from the US

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