Three Mile Island to be restarted

This is the sort of story that makes you wish you never opened the newspaper this morning.

The Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania was the site of the worst nuclear disaster in American history - and one of the worst in the world. An NIH report said that "total mortality was significantly elevated" after the 1979 meltdown, and a spike in birth defects was found in the area. The plant even had to pay a multimillion-dollar legal settlement.

The media has lately been engaged in a campaign of historical negationism to downplay the disaster, but nobody is fooled (idiots excepted). When the media isn't cheering foreign wars or demanding new COVID lockdowns or more cuts to Social Security, everything else it puts out sounds like a press release written by the nuclear power racket.

But now Constellation Energy has announced plans to restart Three Mile Island. All the energy generated by it will be sold to Microsoft - solely to power its artificial intelligence operations. Nobody who lives in the area will be able to use the power it generates - but their lives will be endangered again by the plant being nearby. The plant is scheduled to be restarted in 2028.

Instead of green energy, America is moving backwards towards filthy, dangerous energy that was in vogue over a half-century ago.

All of this is so Microsoft can run more AI. AI of course is the thing that comes up at the top of every Google search which I skip over because it's so full of inaccurate information. It's almost as inaccurate as the media's right-wing pro-nuke propaganda.