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by mpweiher 6mo ago
The Fukushima plants were completely destroyed by the meltdowns and subsequent Hydrogen explosions that were caused by the Tsunami. There was never any chance of "restarting" them, so not sure why you brought that up.
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by mpweiher 6mo ago
> "Basically zero" is a funny way to spell "a few dozen". The actual death toll of the accident itself is zero. There was one incident of cancer that was ruled a "workplace accident" by an insurance tribunal
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by mpweiher 6mo ago
"Fears" is the correct word. See also: Radiophobia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiophobia Reality, on the other hand, is that nuclear power is what keeps the lights on in Ukraine in this war, and Ukrain
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by mpweiher 6mo ago
Interesting fact: Finland just built one, for €1 billion. How can that be, if it's so incredibly difficult that Germany has not managed to do this? The simple fact is that it has virtually nothing to do with any "difficulty"
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The high-emissions RCP8.5 scenario is Officially Dead(rogerpielkejr.substack.com)
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by mpweiher 6mo ago
NPPs have actually gotten more reliable over time.
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Company says nuclear fusion could power the grid – and soon(cnn.com)
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Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants(dpa-international.com)
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France unveils plan to phase out fossil fuels by 2050(ctvnews.ca)
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by mpweiher 6mo ago
Alas, it is exactly the intermittent renewables that create a dependency on fossil fuels. Unless you have nuclear or another reliable source like hydro, which you only get if you have the right topography for it.
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The Fallen Apple(mattgemmell.scot)
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The Truth About China's Green Energy Industry [video](youtube.com)
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by mpweiher 6mo ago
I think it's been well-documented that people feel more productive with GenAI, even when actual productivity declines.
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Richard Sutton – Father of RL thinks LLMs are a dead end [video](youtube.com)
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The Tiny Donut That Proved We Still Don't Understand Magnetism [video](youtube.com)
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TerraPower starts construction of first US utility-scale advanced nuclear plant(world-nuclear-news.org)
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DDD – Data Display Debugger(gnu.org)
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EU to warn against early nuclear exits in effort to address energy crisis(uk.news.yahoo.com)
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by mpweiher 6mo ago
> People from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, etc...it's all the same. Hmm...it's been a while, but when I was at Apple one of the reasons given internally for why products were so much better than the competition (and they wer
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China's nuclear power sector now able to build 50 reactors at a time(scmp.com)
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is grounded after failed satellite launch(apnews.com)
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by mpweiher 6mo ago
Another iPhone mini...
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by mpweiher 6mo ago
One of the reasons software is harder is that people think it's easier.
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by mpweiher 6mo ago
Glue: the dark matter of software https://blog.metaobject.com/2021/06/glue-dark-matter-of-soft...
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Tabular Database Systems – DuckDB-Based Course on the Fundamentals of RDBMS/SQL(github.com)
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Xtrace-skill: Xtrace – Command-line CPU Profiling for macOS as a skill(github.com)
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RISC in PicoGK – creating a geometry core with a reduced instruction set (2023)(jlk.ae)
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LLMs fail in 8 out of 10 early differential diagnosis cases(theregister.com)
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Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages(iqiipi.com)
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by mpweiher 6mo ago
Yes, absolutely: Hollande. Got my <double-consonant-"and(e)">s confused. Apologies. Yeah, a lot of the world panicked after Fukushima, for understandable, but in the end non-factual reasons. https://en.wikipedia

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