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

  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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