Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors

• CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It is, unless it’s distributed in a plume because Texas environmental regulators suck.

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  • Kayday@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s what the NRC is for.

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    • HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And they have enough people to maintain and inspect the hundreds of thousands of reactors that are going to be built, if those small reactors work?

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      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        not hundreds of thousands. they are too expensive to be that common.

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      • Kayday@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well they don’t do any maintenance. And considering the plant only gets built if the NRC says so, I think they’ll manage. NRC doesn’t fuck around. It’s also not a good look to Trump’s base to deregulate nuclear safety; they’re historically the ones more worried about that.

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      • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The US has the most amount of data centers at ~5500. Not even anywhere close to hundreds of thousands.

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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nonsense. We can just let the Free Market handle it

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Haha that’s a good joke.

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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nuclear waste is a bigger threat to health than carbon dioxide in fact. That is truly a wrongheaded opinion, and one that you likely got from smelling the farts of the nuclear industry that has been on a decades long pr campaign to influence the weak minded, (that’s you.)

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  • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not even close to true. Nuclear waste is actually very manageable.

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