Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions
Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 week agoPretty 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.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Doesn’t that design and operation get created by the economic or governmental system it’s under?
Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
They were actually designed to be very safe. It was thought that they literally couldn’t fail dangerously. Chernobyl was a huge fluke (that had preventions put in place to ensure it never happened again) that was just a lot of weird things combining at once. The other reactors at Chernobyl continued operating for decades safely, similarly to three mile island which only stopped on 2019 because it wasn’t profitable, but now it appears it is again.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Thanks for that. I am not an expert by any means about reactors. I am just going off what my step dad has said and he was a nuclear engineer at Hanford. I did find an article that talks about the shortcomings of the Chernobyl reactor designs.
world-nuclear.org/…/rbmk-reactors
Totally agree about nuclear for sure.
5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 6 days ago
How exactly is nuclear energy safer than solar energy?