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> A nuclear power station puts out many times the waste heat of the sites mentioned in the article. We've apparently mostly made peace with the local impacts of
by renata 2mo ago
> A nuclear power station puts out many times the waste heat of the sites mentioned in the article. We've apparently mostly made peace with the local impacts of those.
Although to be fair, when was the last time we actually managed to build a new nuclear plant?
- philipkglass 2mo agoThe newest American nuclear reactors to enter service were Vogtle units 3 and 4, in 2023 and 2024: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Plant#Commissioning_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...
- renata 2mo agoHmm, I hadn't considered additions to existing plants versus greenfield plants, fair point. Presumably those have less local resistance and permitting issues considering it only took fifteen years from application to generating power. Guess there's probably a market in selling existing datacenters to the hyperscalers to expand them!