En République démocratique du Congo (#RDC), le gouvernement est en #alerte face à des risques de radiation #radioactive sur des sites miniers du Lualaba (sud-est). La question a été au cœur du Conseil des ministres de ce samedi 28 mars 2026
là où sont stockés les résidus de l'#exploitation #minière. Une zone qui appartient à la société Kamoto Copper Company, filiale du géant #suisse Glencore.

https://www.rfi.fr/fr/afrique/20260329-rdc-pollution-%C3%A0-kolwezi-et-menace-d-une-contamination-radioactive

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Today in Labor History March 28, 1979: Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant, in Pennsylvania, had a level-5 partial meltdown, the worst nuclear power accident in U.S. history, and one of the worst in the world, prior to Chernobyl. TMI operators had not been adequately trained to handle the type of malfunction that led to the meltdown and, consequently, a delay in mitigation efforts. Clean-up began in 1993, at a cost of $2 billion in today’s dollars. Officials concluded that the release of radioactive material from the plant did not raise exposure levels of nearby residents to a level that would increase cancer cases by even one additional case. However, anti-nuclear groups hired their own independent investigators who found that radiation levels in the area were significantly elevated. A peer-reviewed study by Dr. Steven Wing found a significant increase in cancers from 1979-1985 among people living within ten miles of TMI. And in 2009, Dr. Wing said that the amount of radiation released during the accident was likely "thousands of times greater" than the NRC's estimates.

In 2024, Bill Gates obtained exclusive rights to the “carbon-free” energy from TMI, once it reopens, to power his Artificial Intelligence farms, starting in 2028. Other Tech Barons are also looking to exploit nuclear power for their energy-hungry AI farms. Data centers currently account for about 1 to 1.5 percent of global electricity use. NVIDIA will be shipping out over 1.5 million AI server units per year by 2027. These servers, alone, would consume at over 85.4 terawatt-hours of electricity annually, more than many small countries use in a year. Yet, the U.S. still has no permanent radioactive waste storage facilities. As of 2023, the U.S. had roughly 88,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel from commercial reactors, and all of this is stranded at the reactor sites. Experts expect this number to grow by 2,000 metric tons each year.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/20/energy/three-mile-island-microsoft-ai/index.html

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-ai-boom-could-use-a-shocking-amount-of-electricity/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-is-piling-up-does-the-u-s-have-a-plan/

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Continued monitoring of sunken Soviet submarine shows ongoing radioactive leakage, but little impact https://phys.org/news/2026-03-sunken-soviet-submarine-ongoing-radioactive.html

#Norway #sea #environment #nuclear #radioactive #Russia

#Trump's rush to build #nuclear reactors across the U.S. raises safety worries

December 17, 2025

"Critics, however, worry that the tight July 4 deadline, political pressure and a lack of transparency are all compromising safety. Even a 'small' release of #radioactive material could cause damage to #people and the #environment around the test sites.

"This is not normal, and this is not OK, and this is not going to lead to success," warned #AllisonMacfarlane, a professor at the University of British Columbia who served as chairman of the #NRC under President Barack Obama. 'This is how to have an accident.' "

Read more:
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/17/nx-s1-5608371/trump-executive-order-new-nuclear-reactors-safety-concerns

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Today in Labor History March 14, 1961: U.S. Air Force B-52 nuclear bomber crashed near Yuba City, California, just 119 miles away from San Francisco, and only 42 miles from Sacramento. It was carrying two 3.8-megaton, sealed pit thermonuclear Mark 39 Mod 2 bombs arranged in tandem in its bomb bay. Both weapons were thrown from the aircraft on impact and "severely damaged." According to the official report, the aircraft experienced an uncontrolled decompression that required it to descend to 10,000 feet in order to lower the cabin altitude. However, the crew was also high on speed and exhausted from a 24-hour flight just before the accident. None of the crew died, but a firefighter on the ground did. Fortunately, the weapons' multiple safety interlocks prevented a nuclear explosion and the release of radioactive material. The warheads each had a yield of 3.8 megatons. By comparison, these bombs were roughly 250 time more powerful than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which had yields of only 15 and 20 kilotons respectively. Between 1958 and 1961, Mark 39 bombs were involved in at least 4 serious Broken Arrow accidents.

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