Comment on Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It's Considering Small Nuclear Reactors
eclectic_electron@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoAnd a dam failure isn’t that much better than a nuclear accident, and far more common and less regulated
Rakonat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Just building and completing a damn is worse for the environment and local ecosystems than a category seven catastrophic nuclear accident.
Stumblinbear@pawb.social 1 year ago
You’re getting downvoted, but there’s some truth in it. You don’t just build a dam, you flood thousands of square miles and destroy hundreds of microcosms. Species have gone extinct due to dams.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ive come to find on reddit and lemmu that people don’t actually understand anything about nuclear energy, citing how bad Chernobyl is yet ignoring that not only is there still life in the exclusion zone, new species have emerged and been identified, where as successful dams that didn’t have any failures irrevocably damage and destroyed ecosystem upstream and downstream.
Stumblinbear@pawb.social 1 year ago
Not to mention that in the hundred years of nuclear plants, 30 people have died in TOTAL. Coal mines have killed a hundred thousand in the US alone, and windmills kill a few thousand in the UK alone each year. Nuclear has only killed 30 people. In a hundred years.