Ai Could Turn Your Town Nuclear

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These days, Paducah, Kentucky - organization 27,000 and location to nan National Quilt Museum - prides itself arsenic "Quilt City." But decades ago, it was besides called nan "Atomic City" - a moniker it could soon regain arsenic AI's power needs bring Paducah's atomic past backmost to life.

The Department of Energy (DOE) operated a uranium enrichment works successful Paducah for much than 60 years until nan works shuttered successful 2013 amid a downturn successful atomic energy. The aforesaid year, Paducah was designated a UNESCO "creative city" for its quilts, a title it now boasts connected its website (along pinch a city-led inaugural to make Paducah much "considerate and kind").

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