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Sounds like an opportunity for some enterprising Valley folk to disrupt nuclear! I can't wait for Nucly, the only reactor control panel for iOS and Android.

badloginagain 10y ago
In all seriousness, there have been attempts at startups looking to disrupt the nuclear industry. It's hit several problems, in the form of bad science and harsh regulation. Apparently hacking plutonium is not easily accomplished.
- mikeash 10y ago
  Sounds like they need to adopt the Uber model. Regulations causing you trouble? Just ignore them!
  - whyenot 10y ago
    move fast and irradiate things
bbcbasic 10y ago
Needs to be IoT as well. For added security.
- monocasa 10y ago
  You know what they say, "the 'S' in IoT stands for security."
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - Daneel_ 10y ago
    This gave me a good chuckle, thanks.
DonHopkins 10y ago
AirIMBY lets you rent out your back yard as a nuclear waste disposal site.
- rcthompson 10y ago
  Just choose your preferred radioactive half-life range and we'll match you with compatible nuclear waste producers.
- HillaryBriss 10y ago
  of course, Berkeley will need to abandon its "nuclear free zone" policy. but i see that as a solvable problem, once they recognize the potential for revenue enhancement.
- jrnichols 10y ago
  Or do what SMUD near Sacramento, CA did... it's a public park! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating... (it's actually a nice area and the lake is decent.)
Swizec 10y ago
You jest, but my first job[1] was back in 2005-ish for a small company[2] in Slovenia building web dashboards for Slovenia's nuclear power plant[3]. PHP and good old forms. My job was parsing the XML data and feeding it into some sort of graph component. Can't remember if they gave me a built graph component or I had to build one from scratch. Not the kind of startup you'd hear about on HN of course. And no, I don't know what the motivation was for the nuclear power plant to issue a RFP that involved web dashboards. Maybe upgrading their interfaces from the analog ones built in the 80's? [1] more of an internship [2] not quite a startup, more of a spinoff iirc [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C5%A1ko_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C5%A1ko_Nuclear_Power_Plant

badloginagain 10y ago

In all seriousness, there have been attempts at startups looking to disrupt the nuclear industry. It's hit several problems, in the form of bad science and harsh regulation. Apparently hacking plutonium is not easily accomplished.

mikeash 10y ago
Sounds like they need to adopt the Uber model. Regulations causing you trouble? Just ignore them!
- whyenot 10y ago
  move fast and irradiate things

bbcbasic 10y ago

Needs to be IoT as well. For added security.

monocasa 10y ago
You know what they say, "the 'S' in IoT stands for security."
- deleted 10y ago
  [deleted]
- Daneel_ 10y ago
  This gave me a good chuckle, thanks.

DonHopkins 10y ago

AirIMBY lets you rent out your back yard as a nuclear waste disposal site.

rcthompson 10y ago
Just choose your preferred radioactive half-life range and we'll match you with compatible nuclear waste producers.
HillaryBriss 10y ago
of course, Berkeley will need to abandon its "nuclear free zone" policy. but i see that as a solvable problem, once they recognize the potential for revenue enhancement.
jrnichols 10y ago
Or do what SMUD near Sacramento, CA did... it's a public park! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Seco_Nuclear_Generating... (it's actually a nice area and the lake is decent.)

Swizec 10y ago

You jest, but my first job[1] was back in 2005-ish for a small company[2] in Slovenia building web dashboards for Slovenia's nuclear power plant[3]. PHP and good old forms. My job was parsing the XML data and feeding it into some sort of graph component. Can't remember if they gave me a built graph component or I had to build one from scratch. Not the kind of startup you'd hear about on HN of course. And no, I don't know what the motivation was for the nuclear power plant to issue a RFP that involved web dashboards. Maybe upgrading their interfaces from the analog ones built in the 80's? [1] more of an internship [2] not quite a startup, more of a spinoff iirc [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C5%A1ko_Nuclear_Power_Plant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C5%A1ko_Nuclear_Power_Plant