Comment on Constellation Energy plans to invest $1.6B to revive the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania and sell all the output to Microsoft for AI energy demands.

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• tee9000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Interesting. What is chance a nuclear plant goes boom? Sounds legit.

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  • EherNicht@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Very unlikely if maintained properly. The other facts are a lot more important. In addition to the most important one of WAY cheaper price per kWh (of Solar/Wind). And one medium important thing: Nuclear plants often rely on a river for cooling. If said river gets to warm/carries to little water the plant may have to shut down (happened a lot in France recently).

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Very unlikely if maintained properly.

      Well, are they? All of them?

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      • nforminvasion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Extremely. Like to levels you wouldn’t believe. You need more paper work than a printer to be able to enter one. To work at one requires psych evals, tests, multiple background checks, and a whole pile of things.

        There are often loads of armed guards, and surveillance everywhere.

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• dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not to mention that wind turbines and solar parks are faster to set up AND scalable. A nuclear plant is neither.

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