A.I.’s Energy Boom Needs Safer Nuclear Power

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s call last year to develop advanced nuclear power facilities in upstate New York triggered protests from the usual anti-nuclear groups, including the Sierra Club. These critics are sounding the same safety alarms that have stalled nuclear development in the U.S. since Three Mile Island. But a next-generation nuclear fuel now being aggressively advanced by the Department of Energy could silence those concerns for good.