Comment on AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines

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humanspiral@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Everything about project certainty and costs is a lie here.

Moving reactors to somewhere permanent that isn’t prime waterfront dock space, reactors past their design life, is simply not realistic. Low ball cost estimates with loan guarantees is the typical nuclear energy boondoggle.

These are just the initial cost estimates over decommission process, but if it were feasible, part of initial design, this wouldn’t be an “afterthought scam”.

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