Sunday, April 23 — 3 most significant news

Every day, I ask ChatGPT to read the top 1000 trending news and post only the significant ones. No junk news, ever: if nothing significant happens, nothing gets posted.

Today ChatGPT read 1033 articles and gave 5 of them a score over 6.5.

After removing duplicates and repeats, here is today’s most significant news:

[7.0] France faces challenge of finding 100,000 nuclear specialists to meet ambitious atomic construction project. — Financial Times

France aims to have the first in a series of six new nuclear reactors operational by 2035, with plans potentially extending to another eight reactors. The government estimates it needs to find 100,000 nuclear specialists over the next six years to achieve this goal. However, there are concerns over whether France still has the industrial capacity and workforce to make these projects happen on such a large scale. The country currently employs around 220,000 people in the nuclear industry and will need to rebuild a deep bench of qualified workers for its new nuclear drive.

[6.8] US experiencing worst-ever outbreak of bird flu, with new strain affecting wild birds and threatening food security. — Business Insider

A new H5N1 strain of bird flu is spreading across the US, killing over 58 million birds. The outbreak is the worst-ever in the country, and researchers believe it may become endemic, affecting food security and the economy. The US government has started testing four new bird flu vaccines to protect poultry. While the disease can affect humans, it is rare, with only three cases of human infection reported in 2023. The avian flu outbreak has caused egg prices to surge almost 60% in 2022, impacting farmers and markets.

[6.7] Scientists warn lab work on dangerous viruses risks killing 1.6 million people annually. — The Telegraph

Scientists have warned that labs working on dangerous viruses risk causing 1.6 million deaths per year and called for a public review of experiments. Virologists and biosafety experts met in Geneva to discuss preventing lab accidents that could lead to pandemics. Genetic advances have enabled the engineering of more deadly viruses or the revival of eradicated strains. There are concerns that Covid-19 may have leaked from a Chinese lab working on bat viruses. Harvard epidemiology professor Marc Lipsitch calculated that each lab working on such projects puts between 10,000 and 1.6 million people at risk of death annually.

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