I’m not too sure if I missed it, but what’s the budget for this?
Oklo breaks ground on its first nuclear ‘powerhouse’ at INL (Idaho National Laboratory)
Submitted 3 weeks ago by TehBamski@lemmy.world to energy@slrpnk.net
https://www.power-eng.com/nuclear/smrs/oklo-breaks-ground-on-its-first-nuclear-powerhouse/
kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Idaho! That’s where the first 3 people died from a nuke explosion!
atlasobscura.com/…/ebri-reactor-meltdown-1955-nuc…
porksnort@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I got to peek inside the decommissioned building where this happened. They still scoop up bits of fuel from ant mounds in the vicinity because the fuel pellets happen to be the size of particles ants prefer in their mounds. Did a few seasons of ecological surveys on the INL and it is a wacky place.
kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not surprised! Would like to learn more about what’s become of it.
TehBamski@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
…I really don’t know what to do with this information.
The article that you linked doesn’t even speak of there being a “nuke explosion” nor deaths, injuries, casualties, etc., etc.
Are you implying that modern nuclear reactors are unsafe? Or perhaps, how far we’ve come with nuclear reactor procedures, technologies and safety messures, from back in Or perhaps, you’re sharing a tidbit and an article that relates only in the fact that they both happened in Idaho. Or perhaps, you’re trying to stir up trouble.porksnort@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
The article is about EBR-1. The steam explosion was at SL-1
kalkulat@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Most people who’ve studied the history of nuclear energy at all know about it. While it’s seldom talked about (like most of the other accidents kept out of the news) SL-1’s not hard to learn more about, e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1#Accident_and_response