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Today, we announced that Westinghouse is collaborating with Google Cloud to use AI to accelerate the construction of advanced Westinghouse nuclear reactors and improve operations in our current nuclear fleet. AP1000® technology is the quickest way to add new sources of affordable and abundant nuclear energy to the U.S....

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Фото профиля Vittorio
Vittorio1 год назад

this is FANTATASTIC ! congrats guys !

Фото профиля Aeneas
Aeneas1 год назад

Good. So when do you start building the next reactor?

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