AI Geniuses’ Nuclear Energy Plans Overlook Doomsday Clock

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI, 14 Jul 2025

Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service

AI top guns want nuke power despite plutonium, nuclear waste, cancers, and genetic effects.

9 Jul 2025 – Experts who can further advance the capacities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are in such short supply that, according to the Wall Street Journal (June 28-29, 2025), there is a “secret file of geniuses” known as “The List”.

This handful of AI experts are being offered hundreds of millions of dollars to be hired by the likes of Meta (Facebook), Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Microsoft, Open AI, Anthropic and other major players.

In their eagerness to make AI models ever more “powerful,” these “geniuses” appear to have enthusiastically, and uncritically, advocated for a resurgence of nuclear power plants.  Why? Advanced AI will require new infrastructure data centers that take enormous amounts of energy.

WARNING: AI GENIUSES APPEAR TO HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT PLUTONIUM OR THE DOOMSDAY CLOCK. PLUTONIUM COMES FROM NUCLEAR REACTORS. IT MAKES NUCLEAR BOMBS. 

Fortunately “Return to Fukushima” (OR Books, 2025) by investigative journalist Thomas Bass didn’t forget the downside of nuclear power. Bass went to Fukushima Daiichi, Japan to see for himself the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake/tsunami-caused nuclear meltdown which is still active and not under adequate control.

Bass tells us that the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) have a sordid history of lying to the public about Fukushima’s problems including its nuclear waste now dumped into the ocean.

The nuclear lobby we learn, is claiming that nuclear power is “green.” Bass concludes differently. He argues that nuclear power is a “dangerous technology” protected by “large amounts of disinformation and propaganda.”

Aware that traditional nuclear power plants are too expensive to build, the nuclear lobby back-up plan is to invest in “next generation small modular reactors”. If something goes wrong with a “small” reactor, there is less of an expensive mess in the event of a meltdown.

What’s wrong with this picture? Can our geniuses not only advance AI capacity for large corporations, but at the same time offer a green solution for the needed new energy infrastructure which is desired? AI has a voracious appetite for energy, but Bass says that nuclear power is definitely not the answer.

But our geniuses apparently disagree with Bass. They feel that nuclear power can provide the desired massive amounts of “clean,” green energy, hence convincing the Trump Administration into fast tracking the establishment of new nuclear power plants –with full government support.

Why government support? Because private insurance refuses to insure nuclear reactors — either the large or small ones. They are too dangerous if something goes wrong. Without government support nuclear power is dead.

The public and AI advocates must ask themselves if advances in AI are so important as to risk massive expansion of nuclear power either in the USA, or worldwide??. It’s not just private corporations and the USA government caught in the moment; China is currently building 14 nuclear reactors with plans for up to 150 new reactors by 2035.

The language to promote nuclear power

Nuclear power has become a cult with an almost religious belief in what is falsely presented as endless, cheap, clean, green energy. Fission. Liquid-metal, sodium-cooled, high temperature gas reactors. Fusion. Fast breeder reactors. Next-gen nuclear. Small modular reactors (SMRs).

Why nuclear power is not worth the risks

Plutonium from nuclear reactors is for making bombs. DOOMSDAY CLOCK. There is a nuclear missile race underway between the USA and Russia. Lessor powers like France, the UK, Pakistan, China and Israel have nuclear weapons. Nuclear waste has yet to find a solution. Radiation can cause cancers, other symptoms, genetic defects and death. Nuclear war could end the world as we know it.

In view of the potential perils of nuclear power, it would seem appropriate for our expert AI geniuses to re-think their demand for nuclear power plants–either large or small. Slow down. AI can wait pending an energy plan which is safer, cheaper and truly green.

The Earth Constitution states that the (Earth Federation) government must control/regulate nuclear power. … Article 4.31 requires an assessment of technological innovations of supranational consequence which may cause hazards or perils to humanity or the environment, and to regulate as may be found necessary to protect human health and welfare.

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Roger Kotila, Ph.D. is a peace activist and a psychologist (ret.) with many years of clinical experience with the California Dept. of Corrections doing psychiatric diagnosis and treatment with inmates. President of Democratic World Federalists he is co-editor of DWF NEWS, and editor of Earth Federation News & Views. He supports a “new UN” under the Earth Constitution. www.earthfederation.info Email: earthstarradio@aol.com

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