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Nukes makes it sound like they want nuclear missiles but this is about nuclear energy...
by keeganjw 7y ago
Nukes makes it sound like they want nuclear missiles but this is about nuclear energy...
- melling 7y agoIt might confuse an AI, but a human would immediately know because the word renewables is first.
- ad404b8a372f2b9 7y agoMaybe it's a regional way of saying "nuclear" but, given the highly negative context of actual nukes, I expected a fervently anti-nuclear article. It'd be like an article in support of euthanasia being titled: "This state wants both end of life care and murder".
- melling 7y agoNope. It’s commonly used. “No Nukes Is Bad News for Climate” https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-nukes-is-bad-news-for-climate-11568325259 https://www.wsj.com/articles/no-nukes-is-bad-news-for-climat... “How Old Nukes Can Help Green New Dealers” https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-10/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-nuclear-energy-plans-clash https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-10/elizab... Any reasonable intelligence would have understood from the context. Would make a good test for anyone’s AI.
- makerofspoons 7y agoI've said many times that nuclear power needs better marketing. Drop nuclear from the name like the MRI manufacturers did. It's no longer a nuclear plant, it's a traveling wave plant, or a molten salt plant- more descriptive and also separates the concept in people's minds from a Simpsons-esque nuclear plant.
- keanebean86 7y ago"Krypton production facility"? The mascot could be a neon light.
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoThose who forget the story of Superman's origin are doomed to repeat it.
- fearhugs 7y agoYes... is this an American phrasing? I (from UK) would definitely write this as "renewables and nuclear".
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoIt's not uncommon slang in the US to call nuclear power plants "nuke plants." Hell, cooking something in a microwave oven is often called "nuking it," and that's not even the same kind of radiation.
- KoftaBob 7y agoI've never heard an American refer to nuclear power as "nukes". This wording is pure clickbait.
- tomjakubowski 7y agoNuclear powered submarines are commonly called "nukes".
- tomschlick 7y agoNo. This is Vox phrasing to drum up controversy. They do this crap all the time.
- keeganjw 7y agoTo be fair, if you clicked through, it wasn't Vox's phrasing but the original poster's.
- tomschlick 7y agoMy bad. I did click through but didn't re-read the headline. Just assumed it was the same based on Vox's history with clickbait BS.
- keeganjw 7y agoThis isn't American phrasing just the original poster's bad title.
- dang 7y agoOk, we've put nuclear energy in the title above.