Comment on Sam Altman takes nuclear energy company Oklo public to help power his AI ambitions
BugKilla@lemmy.world 1 month agoI think you make a good case for making energy production a public utility. Private ownership of essential services is ethically bankrupt. The fact that a company can fail and leave people without core services, is disgusting in my opinion. Even more disgusting is that they almost always seek public funds to bail them out.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You misunderstood. The government requires that the company invest plenty of extra money into funding in case the company fails. I think this is a bond but I don’t remember.
For instance, the TMI (three mile island) decommission started in 2019 and will be finished by 2079. There has been multiple changes in ownership but the current company is using the leftover cleanup funds to slowly decommission the site.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Wow what a success story. I’ll trust that everything works out great by 2079. \s