Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions

• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mostly, yes. Use breeder reactors to turn long term radioactive waste to sort term radioactive waste, store for short time and done. The downside: it’s more expensive to move and process the stuff so nobody wants to do that.

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  • uzay@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How short is short-term?

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    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Hundred years. Big difference with the 100.000 years of the current waste.

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• datendefekt@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like most things with environmental impact, we just let later generations deal with it. Somehow.

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• peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Relatively yes. There are disposal sites under construction that are in highly stable and environmentally safe locations. One good thing right now is that radioactive waste is temporarily easily stored. Transport of waste is an issue still, but far less of a problem than transporting oil and oil products.

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• Hiko0@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Next question would be:

  Who pays for disposal and dismantling old nuclear power plants? Might also be relevant for @Eximius@lemmy.world claim. I guess it‘ll be the tax payer. And then we might have a different answer to the question of financial sense.

  Privatizing gains and collectivizing costs still seems to be en vogue.

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