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Climate change has a new partner in its quest to alter life as we know it: Nuclear, the power buzzword for the AI Holy Grail of human submission to digital electrons mimicking human brainpower. And AI can’t survive, can’t thrive without enormous amounts of electrical energy. Wall Street has the answer and politicians agree that nuclear is the big, beautiful answer to a whole new advanced level of human mental experience with electrons. The nuclear narrative is more positive than ever, “go for it,” but what if something goes wrong or is nuclear suddenly risks-free?

Knowledgeable people are holding their breath, shaking their heads, concerned about a prospective all-over-creation nuclear. But ‘heads of state’ are gaga over nuclear. President Trump and PM Starmer recently signed a deal, September 18, 2025, designed to rapidly expand nuclear power, the Atlantic Partnership for Advanced Nuclear Energy providing for rapid expansion of nuclear across both countries. Predictably, Wall Street went crazy, new highs in nuclear-related stock prices, guaranteeing a bright AI future!

In a follow up to the grand agreement, Holtec, a private company, itching to go public via IPO, has been chosen to develop nuclear-powered data centers worth $15 billion in northeast England.

The Hudson River Nuclearized, Again

In the US, Holtec intends to install SMRs (small modular reactors) at New York’s Indian Point and restart the old partially dismantled reactors in spite of the halting fact that it signed an agreement prohibiting renuclearizing the site without local, county and state support, which it does not have. Holtec is also suing to block a state law prohibiting the dumping of radioactive water into........

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