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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Macfarlane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Macfarlane I would like to point out that the author of this article has

by Herz 2y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Macfarlane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Macfarlane I would like to point out that the author of this article has practically based her entire life on being anti-nuclear... I'm not saying the article is worthless, but I don't know how interesting it can be to read the words of someone who starts from a conclusion and goes backwards to refute it and to bring arguments to her assumption. Also, the article start in this way... > In the past few years, investors, national governments, and the media have paid significant attention to small modular nuclear reactors as the solution to traditional nuclear energy’s cost and long build times and renewable’s space and aesthetic drawbacks, but behind the hype there is very little concrete technology to justify it. This anti-research, anti-free-market, anti-technology rhetoric is terrible.... It's like those who 10 years thought artificial intelligence was useless. Which technologies before being properly developed have been proven from the beginning to have no defects whatsoever? It is only through iteration and perseverance that something useful, cheap, etc. is created. The "turning point" is something that happens through investment, research and competition. To pretend it doesn't exist by not investing in it because to some enlightened person it's a "useless" technology is a counter-sense.

fuzzfactor 2y ago
From a different perspective you might think some of the principles of rapid technology development that have been honed over the last few decades in computer science and software engineering could be applied to some of the most perennial sluggish projects (at the other end of the spectrum) and have a predictable outcome. Maybe so and it can't be really analogous but isn't one of the things that is still plaguing software people memory leaks? How important is that? And to what degree is that a problem which arose due to a little too much hastiness early on? And for how long afterward? How much speculative investment has there been in software-related high-growth industries since, and if it was enough to put memory leaks in the rear-view mirror, when did that turning point finally occur? With nuclear it seems a lot more is at stake, so people would want to know how long has the possibility of that kind of leakage been completely overcome before widespread deployment would be agreeable anywhere near living things. Disregarding intentional diversion of non-leaking sources to be fair. But I would estimate that malicious operators who are just after your money are more hand-wavy than it seems when it comes to leakage or security in the digital tech business for sure.

by Herz 2y ago

fuzzfactor 2y ago

From a different perspective you might think some of the principles of rapid technology development that have been honed over the last few decades in computer science and software engineering could be applied to some of the most perennial sluggish projects (at the other end of the spectrum) and have a predictable outcome. Maybe so and it can't be really analogous but isn't one of the things that is still plaguing software people memory leaks? How important is that? And to what degree is that a problem which arose due to a little too much hastiness early on? And for how long afterward? How much speculative investment has there been in software-related high-growth industries since, and if it was enough to put memory leaks in the rear-view mirror, when did that turning point finally occur? With nuclear it seems a lot more is at stake, so people would want to know how long has the possibility of that kind of leakage been completely overcome before widespread deployment would be agreeable anywhere near living things. Disregarding intentional diversion of non-leaking sources to be fair. But I would estimate that malicious operators who are just after your money are more hand-wavy than it seems when it comes to leakage or security in the digital tech business for sure.