Comment on First planned small nuclear reactor plant in the US has been canceled

• NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t put a nuclear station on my roof or in my basement

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Were you… Were you going to?

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    • AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, a teenage boy scout once built something like an amateur reactor in a shed in his parents backyard shed, so I see nothing wrong with a tractor on the roof or in a basement.

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  • willis936@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Watch me.

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Currently, no. With enough investments in nuclear and less fear mongering, it’s possible that’s be an option. Small scale nuclear reactors can exist and can be safe, and the amount of nuclear material they’d need is fairly small.

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• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yes and so do the batteries and all the controls.

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s not necessarily a need for batteries. I’m generating energy and use it up directly, and inject the overage back into the grid against a compensation, and then at night or during times of heavy cloud coverage, I draw power from the grid pretty much on par with the money I received. So far it’s a zero sum game or slightly profitable.

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    • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ok cool. So you outsourced the battery needs to someone else. Good job. Hey I figured out how to fix global warming, all we need to do is move all the stuff that causes it to different countries.

      Didn’t address the controls I noticed.

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      • viking@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Please read up on how power grids work, before returning to this conversation. Thanks.

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• joel_feila@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah every power source needs some materials.

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• doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Silicon, iirc

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  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Made from sand. A very rareaterial.

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