There’s no shortage of modern reactor designs. We have amazing stuff designed and even prototyped and proven - low waste, safely-failing reactors that basically can’t melt down. All we really lack is dunking and regulatory clearance to build more.
Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors
qaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Better than coal or oil, it might even result in more R&D into reactor designs.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Cortana, can you design a nuclear reactor to train you better?
swab148@startrek.website 1 year ago
Yes daddy
qaz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Searching “Design a nuclear reactor to train you better” on Bing…
nodsocket@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is part of their plan to reduce carbon emissions.
thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Yeah, I don’t understand why building a relatively clean energy source is a bad thing. Reactors are now like 3+ generations past the versions that were super dangerous. Hell, they even have reactors that can use spent fuel from other reactors.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Oil lobby and other interests. Follow the money. Plus it’s easy to play on people’s fears about radioactive waste.
Oh well, countries that know what’s what just quietly build and use their reactors and go about their business. Finland for example is set for a while now.
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Environmental groups are the biggest opposition to new nuclear builds.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Which is ironic because they like electric vehicles, and spent car batteries will soon become just as big of a problem as nuclear waste.
It’s a bit of “not seeing the forest for the trees” situation, we have an immediate climate problem we’re trying to stave off, if these are the things that will wean us off fossil energy than that’s what we have to do for now and we’ll cross that other bridge when we come to it.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Someone on here made an interesting argument showing how conservative politicians are actually pushing nuclear hard. They do this to steer interest away from other renewables, but also because they know nuclear will go nowhere. It’s politically unviable with voters and regulatory bodies. The point is that the bottommost issue is public perception and bias against it. If we could overcome that, we’d at least have a fighting chance.