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

• 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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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How exactly is nuclear energy safer than solar energy?

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      • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Mining isn’t particularly safe, then refining and construction.

        It must have shifted at some point, because the data I see now shows solar as 0.01 death per twh less than nuclear. Nuclear still produces the lowest CO2 per twh.

        ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy

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