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by mpweiher 4mo ago
Being an additional problem is not a contradiction of it being the least of those problems. No it won't. That isn't true. There are lots of suitable places. The problems are purely political, not geological. For example: &quot
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
That's not true. Disposal of spent fuel was always included in the price of electricity (for example in Germany, but many/most others as well) and is negligible in cost. Finland just built a spent-fuel repository for ~ € 1 billio
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
Giving priority to non-reliable producers is insane.
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
The biggest risk for nuclear is the government. That's why the government has to indemnify the companies against those risks. Spot market prices are not total system costs.
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
Nuclear is REDUCING the overall danger. Because the alternatives are much more dangerous.
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
In 100 years: sure. Unless we have civilizational collapse in which case a bit of nuclear waste will be the least of our problems. It won't have to be monitored for a 1000 years. First, by that time the level of radioactivity is very
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
No technology is 100% safe, so that is a straw man. However, nuclear energy is the safest form of electricity generation we have.
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
Everywhere gets zero sun at night. And at high latitudes, the night can be very long. And even when the sun does appear for a bit, it doesn't provide a lot of energy. And you might want to ask the Fins how they feel about nuclear powe
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
That turns out not to be the case. The prices are all-inclusive.
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
I doubt it. There used to be separate construction and operating permits, and sometimes you got the building permit, built the plant and then never got the operating license. This has now been streamlined with a combined construction/o
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
While Wyoming is a demonstration plant, it is a demonstration plant of exactly the reactor they plan to build in series. And they have received NRC approval. https://thebreakthrough.org/press/release-the-nrc-issues-con.
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
> Every SMR startup is failing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586648
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
> I wish Italy did the same. They are in the process. Last I checked the bill to do so had passed the lower house and how needs to get ratified by the senate. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/italian-bill
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
That turns out not to be the case. France is not "struggling", they are once again the #1 electricity exporter in Europe, with low-electricity prices, reliable supply, huge profits, and world-beating CO₂ emissions. Their newest en
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
At least one Kanton has already requested a new build. https://www.nuklearforum.ch/de/news/neues-kernkraftwerk-im-a...
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
That competition is handily won by wind and solar. In the meantime in Switzerland: "Our cheapest electricity product is nuclear electricity." https://ewr.ch/elektrizitaet/stromprodukte/
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TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants(neutronbytes.com)
114 points by mpweiher 4mo ago|104 comments
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TerraPower's Natrium reactor begins UK GDA process(world-nuclear-news.org)
2 points by mpweiher 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
True. Alas in incomprehensible source of false is not a source of truth. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
> People say Electron is heavy and not great, but it's also the fastest way to support Mac, Windows, and Linux all at once. Let's fix that! ASMOP
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Other people's money.
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
Rewrites are only cheap if the rewrite solves the problem. And the rewrite can only reliably solve the problem if you understand the problem, and even then it's obviously not a guarantee. If you have a huge blob of code that nobody und
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
ARM instances (CAX) are all consistently at 30%.
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Colossal Squid Are Everywhere. We've Been Looking Wrong [video](youtube.com)
4 points by mpweiher 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
While these somewhat fuzzy definitions are hugely important (well, it says: "the important stuff, whatever that is", so by definition...), I have a hard time calling them "software architecture". I'd like to sugge
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
> Most of my apps are now simply HTMX + Go + SQLite. Very cool! > But yes, lately I’ve been building mobile apps. ... What can I do? I am currently building HTMXNative. Together with Objective-Smalltalk, which has linguistic support f
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PostgreSQL: Property Graphs(postgresql.org)
2 points by mpweiher 4mo ago|0 comments
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by mpweiher 4mo ago
I've always liked the Mach approach. You've got a few primitives: - address space - memory objects - threads Mix and match. A Task (process) is not a primitive, but a composite object combining address space with one or more thr
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The Grad Student Who Broke Microplastics Research(drstanfield.com)
13 points by mpweiher 4mo ago|3 comments
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Arc Fusion Power Plant Physics Basis(cambridge.org)
2 points by mpweiher 4mo ago|0 comments

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