Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

• eclectic_electron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That list records 8 fatalities related to nuclear power in the US. All time.

  Coal is responsible for more than 40. Per year. Just in my city.

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  • AdmiralShat@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be fair, though, the top comment said “nothing wrong” and the guy just followed up with the wrong

    I still think we have access to this energy source and are basically just ignoring it so oil and coal and continue to soak up tax payer funded subsidies and ruin our planet.

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  • Spambox@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • eclectic_electron@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Almost anything has the potential to negatively affect tens of thousands of people when it’s managed as recklessly and negligently as Chernobyl.

      Chernobyl was less a reactor and more a bomb with a very long fuse. Saying we shouldn’t build nuclear reactors today is like saying you shouldn’t take a modern cruise because 14th century sailing ships sank all the time.

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    • SchizoDenji@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How many years has it been since chernobyl?

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      • scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not the 320 years it will take for the exclusion zone to be habitable again.

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  • ThePenitentOne@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You are also forgetting the years of life lost due to air pollution.

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