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

• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Nuclear safety and penny-pinchers capitalism don’t make good bedfellows.

  ftfy. Possibly ironically, nuclear safety and communism (or totalitarianism) don’t work either. It’s odd, innit.

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Pretty sure it has to do with how the plant is designed and operated as opposed to what economic or governmental system it happens to exist under.

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    • homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Doesn’t that design and operation get created by the economic or governmental system it’s under?

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      • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I think with the USSR at least, that their reactor designs were supposed to be less safe than western reactor designs.

        Was it because they were a shitty oligarchy claiming to be communist? Maybe, they did make a lot of shitty decisions.

        I think the US has the record for most nuclear disasters by a lot but two of the worst were in the USSR.

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