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

• Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh man one whole accidents from obvious negligence which is easily resolved by the absolute most basic of regulation. Are you implying we’re as bad as the USSR when it comes to basic safety? There have been hundreds of thousands of reactors going perfectly fine since then.

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  • Nobsi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    here have been hundreds of thousands of reactors going perfectly fine since then

    i didnt know that ~440 with 60 being constructed is equal to hundreds of thousands.
    And i also don’t understand why an incident such as chernobyl or fukushima is just “not a problem” at all to you.

    It’s also not been one…
    You’re forgetting Kyshtym,Windscale,Three Mile Island,Church Rock and again, Fukushima.

    And those were just the bad incidents.

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    • Stumblinbear@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I meant to type “or” not “of.”

      bad incidents

      Kyshtym was not a nuclear reactor and was also in the USSR.

      Windscale had nobody be injured or die in the moment, but POSSIBLY a hundred due to long term radiation, though this is disputed.

      Three Mile Island had zero injuries and zero deaths. The issues it had were entirely due to badly designed control panels and multiple human errors in succession, which has been addressed. Every single one of its safety systems worked perfectly as designed, but one stupid dude did the wrong things at the wrong times and fucked it up. Even then, again, it was an incredibly benign accident.

      Church Rock isn’t even a nuclear reactor.

      Fukushima, again, was quite benign. Nobody died and (iirc) nobody was injured. Its safety systems worked exactly as designed and the only issue was bad placement and not being built to survive the possible tsunamis that it may face, which is easily resolved through the most basic of regulation.

      Yeah, there’s some cleanup in these, but in everything but Chernobyl the surrounding area is perfectly fine. If these are your “bad incidents” then I really wonder what you think of the thousands of people that are actively dying per year putting up and maintaining the windmills.

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      • Nobsi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Church Rock isn’t even a nuclear reactor. Kyshtym was not a nuclear reactor

        No it’s an uranium mine and a Plutonium Plant. What do you need those specific things for?

        Do you want me to list notable deaths in nuclear maintenance?
        You guys are all so dense…

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