The return of Three Mile Island

Make Me Smart

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4.6 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The 1979 disaster at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant helped define the energy conversation in the United States. Now it’s being reopened to help power artificial intelligence. We’ll get into the deal between the owner of the plant and Microsoft. Plus, the hosts weigh in on how some schools are warming up to AI and whether companies should take a political stand in a game of Half-Full/Half-Empty.

Here’s everything we talked about:

- “How Sparing the Parkland Shooter’s Life Changed Florida’s Death Penalty” from The Marshall Project

- “Microsoft AI Needs So Much Power It’s Tapping Site of US Nuclear Meltdown” from Bloomberg

- “Three Mile Island’s Nuclear Plant to Reopen, Help Power Microsoft’s AI Centers” from WSJ

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0:00.0	Hi I'm Kai Rizdahl the host of How We Survive
0:03.4	It's a podcast from Marketplace. In 1986, before I was a journalist,
0:08.3	I was flying for the Navy.
0:09.7	Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
0:14.4	It was the cold war, and my first deployments were intercepting Russian bombers.
0:18.6	Today, though, there's another threat out there, climate change.
0:22.5	This could be the warmest year on record.
0:24.6	Climate change is here.
0:25.7	Temperatures here are warming faster than anywhere on Earth.
0:29.5	And while the threat seems new,
0:31.6	the Pentagon's been funding studies on climate change since the 1950s.
0:35.9	I think we will put our troops and our forces at higher risk if we don't recognize the impact of climate change.
0:44.7	This season, we go to the front lines of the climate crisis
0:47.5	to see how the military is preparing for the threat.
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