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Vibe nuclear — let’s use AI shortcuts on reactor safety! (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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‘GenAI for Nuclear Licensing’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PW9lusiwMz8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251118-vibe-nuclear-lets-use-ai-shortcuts-on-reactor-safety - podcast

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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (14 children)

@frezik @dgerard but when did they ever even identify an actual problem?

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (13 children)

    Even ignoring AI datacenter builds, we still need clean energy. I would be all for nuclear fission if it were at all economically viable. It just isn't.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    yeah, even the green case for nuclear - which has been around for a long time - falters on wind and solar with battery just being hilariously cheaper. At this point the funding problem is interconnects.

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  • [+] 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    @sumek @dgerard They got turned off and de-fuelled, chunks of the plant no longer exist: can't be re-started. This was deliberate policy.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    @cstross @sumek @dgerard sunk cost fallacy. Solar and wind and storage have simply won and the nuclear industry, such as it is, is thrashing around desperately trying to find subsidies and pretending "new tech" will improve matters.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    @cstross @sumek @dgerard Yes, purely political reasons. We are suffering in Germany from a systematic anti-nuclear propaganda campaign even through our schoolbooks.There are still parts that could be salvaged for a comparatively quick restart (compared to starting from scratch), but the people deciding these things currently are determined to make it harder every day.It will be hilarious when they realize in 15 years that even Poland decarbonizes faster than we do.

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  • [+] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    @o7___o7 Yes, stupid and harmful propaganda campaigns are a reality a democracy has to deal with.But the problem is not that a majority is for this destruction. That is not the case. The problem is that a vocal minority has established itself in a position of power and are openly just doing it.That's not a conspiracy, and I am not forbidden to complain about it. It is even my duty as a democrat to at least make my voice heard, as one little force in the democratic process.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago

    @o7___o7 @Ardubal the book ban in #Fahrenheit451 was apparently the result of democracy too:-"But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic-books survive. And the three-dimensional sex-magazines, of course. There you have it, Montag. It didn’t come from the Government down."Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451: The gripping and inspiring classic of dystopian science fiction (p. 76). HarperCollins Publishers. Kindle Edition.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    @dgerard @frezik The problem is alway interconnects. (There aren't that many of them, and they tend to be scaled for fossil-fuelled power stations, probably 1MW being the smallest unless there were CHP setups with a grid feed.)

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    If we're talking about the general West, then there new nuclear is probably fucked. Rest of the world still builds for reasonable costs. Not nuclear bro amounts, but still.

    I think we could see a future where nuclear makes 5-10% of the world's electricity, which would technically make it a niche source of power, but it would also be a massive increase from today.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Nuclear already makes 9% of world's electricity.

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