For decades, the ghosts of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster haunted the global nuclear energy industry. Wind and solar grabbed the clean-energy spotlight, pushing nuclear into obscurity as investments dried up. Then came the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, and things changed practically overnight. A single next-generation AI server rack can consume as much power as dozens of standard households at peak. A terrifying reality hit tech giants: Their ambitious AI growth plans were about to outgrow the aging, c ...