Generation IV power plants can be designed so that they are physically incapable of going into meltdown. And the technology is getting better and better at reusing the waste.
So, of course, one would prefer a nuclear power plant.
If anything, we really need to update old power plants and replace all other non-renewable plants with cleaner power, renewable or not.
Promises, promises. I haven’t heard of one that’s actually in commercial operation right now.
But, apples and oranges… it’s a bullshit choice. Power plants generate power, DC’s consume power.
If you going to generate power, why look beyond solar/wind and batteries? At a much lower price, and much faster build times, they too are ‘physically incapable of going into meltdown’, and are already in use worldwide, no wait time.
As far as DC’s go, they depend on very new technology (enjoying a trendy fad) which -will- get far less power-hungry than they are. Or else. (The grid’s not ready for them.)
The only people in a rush seem to be the people who invested in all the snake oil promises that LLM’s are real A.I. … which they aren’t.
I live in the other city in America which had a nuclear disaster, but no one talks about it really. It created a cancer cluster in part of my city. People died.
I’d rather have nuclear than data centers. Nuclear of today isn’t the nuclear of the 50’s / 60’s. It’s pretty easy to understand why it’s safe these days.
Obviously nuclear fission is the real “fuck yeah” choice though
Generation IV power plants can be designed so that they are physically incapable of going into meltdown. And the technology is getting better and better at reusing the waste.
So, of course, one would prefer a nuclear power plant.
If anything, we really need to update old power plants and replace all other non-renewable plants with cleaner power, renewable or not.
Promises, promises. I haven’t heard of one that’s actually in commercial operation right now.
But, apples and oranges… it’s a bullshit choice. Power plants generate power, DC’s consume power.
If you going to generate power, why look beyond solar/wind and batteries? At a much lower price, and much faster build times, they too are ‘physically incapable of going into meltdown’, and are already in use worldwide, no wait time.
As far as DC’s go, they depend on very new technology (enjoying a trendy fad) which -will- get far less power-hungry than they are. Or else. (The grid’s not ready for them.)
The only people in a rush seem to be the people who invested in all the snake oil promises that LLM’s are real A.I. … which they aren’t.
Bruh I think most of the people answering this are imagining 3-Mile Island…
I live in the other city in America which had a nuclear disaster, but no one talks about it really. It created a cancer cluster in part of my city. People died.
I’d rather have nuclear than data centers. Nuclear of today isn’t the nuclear of the 50’s / 60’s. It’s pretty easy to understand why it’s safe these days.
Obviously nuclear fission is the real “fuck yeah” choice though
You mean the thing that was a bunch of panic but has never actually been shown to of caused any long term issues?
That’s why they’re saying modern plants aren’t like that.