Amazon's New Year Surprise: A $1 Billion Bet on Nuclear Power

Amazon will get first dibs on nuclear power produced in Washington State -- and a chance to build and sell its own nuclear power plants.When you hear the name Amazon.com (AMZN -0.66%), a couple of things probably pop to mind. E-commerce, first and most obviously -- after all, Amazon is the world's biggest e-commerce company -- and then cloud computing. At $90 billion in annual revenue, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is bigger than Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Azure, and far larger than Google Cloud.One thing you a ...