The whole thing is insane...

Like, "we" don't even let some countries have nuclear reactors, because it can (over decades) result in a couple ounces of this shit.

And we're giving double digit metric tons to some crazy chatbot brain rotted billionaire.

The amount of fucked this is can not be understated. This is something worse than we've started 20 year wars over

Now I'm wondering if plants that are designed to run enriched uranium will have to be totally rejiggered or it's a relatively simple change.

Why is easy, they like killing people. That's literally why the Nazis did it.

When is a ????

How will largely be famine and disease, but large numbers from the blast and radiation itself.

You've got it backwards. Weapons-grade is more stable. Less stability is fine for reactors, because they are designed to manage the reaction on an on-going basis and not, in general, blow up.

Your mom

Apparently, the opposite is the case. Funny story, when making a bomb, blowing up during construction, storage, or delivery to the target is an un-desirable trait.

It's okay, they are using ChatGPT.

...okay, we're definitely in danger of a dirty bomb.

holy shit! right! :

"On Tuesday, the US Department of Energy (DOE) launched an application for interested parties to apply for access to a maximum of 19 metric tonnes — a little under 42,000 pounds — of weapons-grade plutonium, which has long been a key resource undergirding the US nuclear arsenal."

Yeah, but those things are not weapons-grade plutonium, either.

Weapons grade nuclear material is a whole different ball game from the merelly highly radioactive material needed to make a dirty bomb.

A bomb made with the stuff that's not "weapons grade" won't reach critical mass so there're isn't a nuclear detonation - all you have is a conventional bomb that spreads highly radioactive material.

With the weapons grade stuff you can actually make a nuclear bomb (rather than merelly a dirty bomb), so something powerfull enough to wipe out a city rather than merelly contaminate a couple of city blocks.

This is why "weapons grade" nuclear material is much more tightly controlled and way harder to get your hands on that merelly highly radioactive materials.

Fortunatelly it's also way harder to make (you need either a breeding nuclear reactor or special equipment to separate the U-235 isotope that can be used to make a nuclear bomb from the much more common U-236 one which cannot from uranium ore, and since these are two isotopes of the same heavy element, they are very hard to separate, hence all the talk about special "centrifugues" in nuclear weapons programs) hence people and even nations can't easilly get their hands on it by merelly making it or processing it from raw ore themselves.

ChatGPT:

Yes - I did hard stop as instructed- Why the crew was still melted is an interesting problem that I'm certain we can solve. Yes - I can confirm 100% I really did do the hard stop. Okay - Checking my records.

Apologies, you were right. Congratulations on catching that! It seems you have a knack for details! I did ignore the hard stop this time. I understand this can be frustrating for you as your crew was melted. This isn't just a mistake but a breach of your trust. You put your faith in me and I failed. Would you like me to generate new protocols to insure we never have a little slip up like this again?

Nuclear isn't a replacement for other renewable resources and people need to stop thinking of it as such. As soon as I see that comparison, it is apparent that the poster either:

1. Has done no actual research on the topic, and are probably just regurgitating random posts they've read on social media.
2. Posting in bad faith because they're just anti-nuclear.
3. They think that grid-scale battery tech to assist renewables like solar and wind is much more capable than it really is.

That last one is only partially true. Grid-scale battery tech has come a long way. And it works phenomenally well as a sort of capacitor to help smooth out grid power and to provide some capacity during the natural lulls in most renewable options like wind and solar when they can't generate. However, there is no battery solution currently on this planet that can provide the power necessary for an entire active grid region for the amount of time renewables aren't generating, like solar overnight, when there's simply no wind to utilize. There is still a base load level needed to provide power regardless of natural forces.

Nuclear is a replacement for the base power load that is currently handled by fossil fuels like Coal and Natural Gas. Much of the spent fuel can now be recycled for reuse even in the same reactors. Some new experimental reactor designs also use spent nuclear fuel from current, mostly 1970's era, designs to provide seed fuel for their reactor processes.

Most nuclear waste, is also short to medium half-life waste, and will decay within years or decades, not millennia. The actual long term-nuclear waste is a very small portion of the total "waste" produced. And even then, most regulations still use Liner No Threshold for their storage requirements, despite virtually no actual nuclear physicists or scientists supporting LNT anymore with hundreds of studies since the 1950s proving it has no basis in reality. If LNT was in fact reality, then radiotherapy for cancer wouldn't work, and we know it does. People in regions like the Colorado Plateau around Denver, receive around 3x the annual radiation dose limit of a nuclear plant worker, simply from the background radiation in the area, yet they have lower than average cancer rates.

Nuclear is the technology we have NOW to be able to remove our reliance on fossil fuels, but the public needs to be educated about reality, not just having the same misinformation spread about constantly online.

Residential solar cost per MWh is much more expensive than other sources, because many small generators is a more expensive (but more resilient) way to build power production.

Grid-scale solar plants are one of the most cost-effective ways to generate electricity. Only wind turbines are competitive in cost per MWh, and the real-world cost of any installation depends on the specifics of the particular installation (land value, insolation, wind patterns, scale, etc).

It's cheaper but not consistent enough for practical use. You cannot have a grid where the voltage goes up and down randomly. Some small countries have this and you never know if you plug something in if it will work. AI farms suck gigawatts of electricity.

iirc solar depends on well, solar energy, so it is best paired with another more stable source of energy.