This is a much cheaper and faster way to get nuclear power.
Do the people that think this a good idea just not see how fast they are trying to prop up new AI datacenters?
Corners are being cut everywhere to get these things built so quickly
I honestly wouldn’t even trust them with to make their own power safely even with things like hydro, wind or geothermal
But fucking nuclear of all things?
They know it would take decades to build the actual nuclear power plants to run everything so they decid to instead try buying nuclear power generators that are already several decades old
This is a much cheaper and faster way to get nuclear power.
Is this “journalist” an industry plant?
I’m just a former Navy Nuke, but I see a major issue with this. Namely, by the time we retire ship-board nuclear reactors, they have been absorbing neutrons and radiation for 30 years, so the steel is weak enough that you could put a ball-peen hammer through it.
The wiki on radiation embrittlement is pretty good reading for any mechanical engineers out there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_embrittlement
What could possibly go wrong?
And who will pay for the disposal and storage of the waste produced?
Us of course. With the small ‘s’.
Fallout is actually gonna happen before we get HL3
Definitely before we get fallout 5.
Has MS done anything with all the IPs they bought over the last 10v or so years? I haven’t seen anything new in an old IP that’s excited me in the gaming world.
I honestly couldn’t tell you, they’ve bought so many…
So I got a job at this company back in the day that did phone and email customer service for other companies.
I was one of the last people they ever hired. Me and 7 other people were shown to our cubicles that had brand new Dell sff computers and peripherals in their boxes.
We were told the IT guys were off or on sick leave and I offered to try and set the machines up at least to save time. With the help of the others we plugged everything in and then kinda sat there all day doing nothing.
Next day we all show up for work and we see people carrying boxes out of the building. Turns out the owner was neck deep in debt and just dissappeared, people were told they shouldn’t be expecting any more paychecks or bother suing.
Basically the manager told everyone to just sort of take whatever they want home and everyone just took their work PC home. Me and 7 other people basically got a free PC for half a day’s work, others got shafted though…
All I’m trying to say here is maybe DON’T SELL NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIER REACTORS to private companies that are 100% going to go tits up soon when yet another tech bubble bursts and those reactors end up being sold on AliExpress?
No problem, got my eyes on a Trident missile.
Make sure to get the PAL code for the nuke, too.
I got an old NES GameGenie around here somewhere we can hack it with. We can hook it up to an AI! No… I can hook it up to an AI. Power over life and death feels like a toy. My toy.
They should be forced to make their own clean power plants. No clean coal, no natural gas. Only renewable since it is a guarantee that they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.
You underestimate the fact that all of these tech CEOs are in a death cult.
they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.
As opposed to the military handling disposal of the reactor materials… which is paid by… the taxpayers.
You didn’t think this comment through every much, or at all really, did you?
I trust the military doing it to spec a million times more than any company executives. It’ll probably be left to pollute the area they hide it for decades before taxpayers have to pay for it.
The military probably will do better than a private company but also remember that the military has had numerous toxic waste problems. Camp Lejeune’s cancers and all the firefighting PFAs contaminating water supplies are just two i can think of off the top of my head but i’m sure theres many more.
The DOE doing it is already financially accounted for and there is a professional staff that are trained on how to do it
What renewables can they use for 24/7 high levels of power requirements?
I don’t give a shit. That should be their problem not ours.
If they’re too dumb to figure it out, they’re too dumb to make AI profitable.
They can afford the higher cost of electricity, but the rest of us can’t, if they can add nuclear reactors to the power grid then it will drive the prices for normal people down so that it’s nearly free.
You actually think they would lower the cost of electricity. Other than naivety, what evidence do you have that will show us how benevolent tech bros are?
I don’t give a shit. That should be their problem not ours.
This should be everyone’s reaction when faced with “but how will [company] profit with [X] ?” questions.
It’s a bunch of indoctrination brainrot where all they ever think about is being of service to the wealthy.
Maybe they should ask ChatGPT.
Oh good. I was hoping we’d find a way for AI to consume more water.
What if we put the AI in the ocean
It’s a Christmas miracle!
Ah yes, let’s give rich people weapons grade uranium (what these compact reactors run on)
Just FYI reactor grade uranium is generally enriched below 5% whereas weapons grade is enriched to ~85%
Weapons grade uranium is so expensive and energy intensive to make that I can’t imagine they would ever pay for it and the fuel is at end of life so would need refueling soon.
The navy likely puts a safety margin on the fuel so there is probably some life left in the fuel but I would be very surprised if it lasted more than a year or two which is where I am confused on how this would work
And all the brave men and women of the various branches of the armed forces can just dance and juggle for the mighty king! Yey!
