AI could turn your town nuclear

Vintage postcard, 1950s. | Image: Getty Images

These days, Paducah, Kentucky - colonisation 27,000 and location to the National Quilt Museum - prides itself arsenic "Quilt City." But decades ago, it was besides called the "Atomic City" - a moniker it could soon regain arsenic AI's vigor 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 the works shuttered successful 2013 amid a downturn successful atomic energy. The aforesaid year, Paducah was designated a UNESCO "creative city" for its quilts, a rubric it present boasts connected its website (along with a city-led inaugural to marque Paducah much "considerate and kind").

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