The CEO of Rob Luna Enterprise, Rob Luna, discusses the need for nuclear energy as part of the increased demand for energy to “earn money”.
The Energy Corporation constellation nuclear power plant is expected to restart a year earlier than originally.
The reactor of unit 1 of Three Mile Island can restart in 2027, a year earlier than the constellation of initial chronology in 2028 provided in September when it announced a power agreement with Microsoft That the energy society declared at the time “would open the way” to come back online.
Two massive cooling laps under rehabilitation for nuclear energy production under Microsoft at Crane Clean Energy Center, previously known as Three Mile Island, can be seen on the other side of the Susquehanna river on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 in Middletown, (Wesley Lapointe for the Washington Post via Getty Images / Getty Images)
The reactor, a separate installation of the reactor of Unit 2 of Three Mile Island which underwent a partial crisis in the late 1970s, did not work since 2019, when it was put out of line for economic reasons. He is renamed Crane Clean Energy Center.
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The electricity purchase agreement with Microsoft which facilitates the restart of the island of three miles extends over 20 years. The electricity that Microsoft should buy at the nuclear power plant will help meet the power requirements Of its data centers, said Constellation.
The nuclear power plant on the island of three miles, located in the middle of the Susquehanna river, in Middletown, Pennsylvania, October 16, 2024. (Heather Khalifa / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Microsoft and Other technological companies have sought nuclear energy – from traditional reactors or future smaller advanced reactors – for electricity while they continue to develop their artificial intelligence efforts.
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AI and data centers on which they count require large amounts of electricity. The International Energy Administration planned earlier this year that American electricity consumption AI and data centers will rise 130% from 2024 to 2030.
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Constellation, which bought Tmi Unit 1 in 1999, said that Crane Clean Energy Center would bring about 835 megawatts of electricity to the network once online.
The three-thousand nuclear power plant on the island of three miles, located in the middle of the Susquehanna river, in Middletown, Pennsylvania, in the United States, Wednesday, October 16, 2024. (Heather Khalifa / Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Restarting the reactor should lead to 3,400 direct and indirect jobs and give the Pennsylvania gross domestic product A boost of $ 16 billion, said the energy company, citing an independent study with an economic impact.
