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Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman (futurism.com)
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Today, in things I'd read on a fading screen in a half destroyed building in a Fallout game...

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

TL:DR: Nuclear is expensive and slow to build and doesn’t adapt well to the variability of demand.

This is a decade outdated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor

Not sure which country you live in, but Germany killed nuclear and skyrocketed coal and gas use, just to make some hippies happy.

Most new nuclear installations are SMRs. Currently at $250M but with scale will be half that in a decade.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    SMRs are snake oil. No SMR has really been built, and they share the exact same problems as "normal" nuclear. They're expensive, still super slow to deploy, expensive to maintain and still produce waste. And all without the econony of scale which is what helps big nuclear reactors be "affordable". You can read multiple articles on them, but here's an example.

    https://www.theenergymix.com/the-nuclear-mirage-why-small-modular-reactors-wont-save-nuclear-power/

    Archived version:

    https://archive.is/jcf0C

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