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I'm not going to watch the youboob, but if the title is an accurate summary, I'd say at least DOGE is getting this one thing right... (20.000 monkeys with type

by johnea 2y ago

I'm not going to watch the youboob, but if the title is an accurate summary, I'd say at least DOGE is getting this one thing right... (20.000 monkeys with typewriters may be correct after all) The cost, and never yet solved problem of all the spent fuel ever used still sitting in "temporary" storage onsite at the reactors, means that nuclear is a disaster that only benefits the corps that get the govt contracts to build the things. The "gee wiz" and "buck rogers adventure club" members here on HN (who also advocate flying off to Mars for space ranger adventure) may be in favor of this "futuristic" power source, but anyone who's even marginally objective can see that in the current world, spending that money on grid storage will come online and pay off much faster, and not yield tons of radioactive waste (that no one knows what to do with, and nobody wants).

johnea 2y ago
Since this new article just came through the HN feed a couple of days after this comment, I wanted to cross reference it here: Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors https://blog.ucs.org/edwin-lyman/five-things-the-nuclear-bros-dont-want-you-to-know-about-small-modular-reactors/ https://blog.ucs.org/edwin-lyman/five-things-the-nuclear-bro... With the comments section here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43825285 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43825285 Which is, of course, flagged by those same nuclear bros 8-/ The author of that article: Ed Lyman Director, Nuclear Power Safety, Union of Concerned Scientists Edwin Lyman is an internationally recognized expert on nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism as well as nuclear power safety and security. He is a member of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, and has testified numerous times before Congress and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. https://www.ucs.org/about/people/edwin-lyman https://www.ucs.org/about/people/edwin-lyman So, of course, HN readers are much MUCH more authoritative and entitled to flag any opposition the author might voice to the idiocy of proliferating nuclear fission and it's byproducts. So much for "freedom" and "liberty", of speech or any other expression of opposition, among the real lib-tards... lib-tard-tarians... Not so surprising when viewed in the context of Cory Doctorow's "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" meme.

by johnea 2y ago

johnea 2y ago

Since this new article just came through the HN feed a couple of days after this comment, I wanted to cross reference it here: Five Things the “Nuclear Bros” Don’t Want You to Know About Small Modular Reactors https://blog.ucs.org/edwin-lyman/five-things-the-nuclear-bros-dont-want-you-to-know-about-small-modular-reactors/ https://blog.ucs.org/edwin-lyman/five-things-the-nuclear-bro... With the comments section here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43825285 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43825285 Which is, of course, flagged by those same nuclear bros 8-/ The author of that article: Ed Lyman Director, Nuclear Power Safety, Union of Concerned Scientists Edwin Lyman is an internationally recognized expert on nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism as well as nuclear power safety and security. He is a member of the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, and has testified numerous times before Congress and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. https://www.ucs.org/about/people/edwin-lyman https://www.ucs.org/about/people/edwin-lyman So, of course, HN readers are much MUCH more authoritative and entitled to flag any opposition the author might voice to the idiocy of proliferating nuclear fission and it's byproducts. So much for "freedom" and "liberty", of speech or any other expression of opposition, among the real lib-tards... lib-tard-tarians... Not so surprising when viewed in the context of Cory Doctorow's "Capitalists Hate Capitalism" meme.