Microsoft Looking to Use Nuclear Reactors to Power Its Data Centers::undefined

  • lettruthout@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What could go wrong?

    This for-profit company will finally come up with a solution to nuclear waste that has eluded the industry for decades. But if that turns out to be expensive, Microsoft will be around for thousands of years to ensure that nothing leaks that shouldn’t. Of course the US government will help them with the cost of establishing the reactors and when something goes wrong (because “nuclear”).

    /s

    • Fraylor@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Shrug. It’s better than nothing or throwing ones hands up and saying “oh well crank up the coal burners!”

      • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
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        Yeah in the meantime they could just build centifold that power in renewables and an electricity grid to make it available everywhere.

        Everyone who is strongly pro nuclear is also pro coal and other fossil fuels because they do fhe bidding of the cirrent fossil industries. Just using uranium instead of carbon.

    • Zetta@mander.xyz
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      There are many companies developing small nuclear reactors for deployment in a lot wider locations compared to current nuclear. This is something humanity needs a lot of focus on to help protect the environment and meet our ever growing energy needs. The more companies working on SMRs the better in my opinion.

      Nuclear waste is an overblown argument compared to the benefits nuclear power provides.

    • AdmiralShat@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      Almost all nuclear reactors in the US are privately owned.

      Im not arguing for or against, but this would be nothing out of the ordinary.

    • kibiz0r@midwest.social
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      • We have ways of storing waste safely, which are the same ways the planet has stored radioactive material for millennia.
      • There are experimental fission reactors that can consume this waste, as well as possible fusion reactors in the near future, so storage may become moot.
      • Coal ash disperses a crapton of radioactive material into the air, which is way worse than lodging it deep underground, encased on concrete.
      • gnygnygny@lemm.ee
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        • underground storage is starting. And some of them already failed.
        • gen4 are experimental since several decades. None of them are commercial
        • last low radiation studies should worried anybody working in any nuclear plant.
      • SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo
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        1 year ago

        If it was google it would definitely end badly when they decided to kill it off since the reactor can’t show web ads.