AIKEN — America’s future is digital and will rely on artificial intelligence data centers powered by advanced nuclear reactors burning mixed-oxide fuel at the Savannah River Site and other federal facilities, Tim Walsh, assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management, said in Aiken Oct. 22.
“I think everybody understands that that there is a sense of urgency here to get to get this done,” he said after speaking to an audience of leaders from the DOE and Savannah River Site contractors at the Savannah River National Laboratory’s Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative on the campus of the University of South Carolina Aiken.
“It’s going to take a lot of big private investment and a capable workforce to get it built, but it’s very urgent. And the urgency is because China is not slowing down on building power,” he said…