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[–] [email protected] 161 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Better than coal or oil, it might even result in more R&D into reactor designs.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There’s no shortage of modern reactor designs. We have amazing stuff designed and even prototyped and proven - low waste, safely-failing reactors that basically can’t melt down. All we really lack is funding and regulatory clearance to build more.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cortana, can you design a nuclear reactor to train you better?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Searching “Design a nuclear reactor to train you better” on Bing…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is part of their plan to reduce carbon emissions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is what corporations mean when they say "reduce carbon emissions"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You say that like it's a bad thing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is, because corporate greenwashing will tell you that they reduced their emissions when all they did was scale up production using green energy. Their actual emissions didn't go down they just went down relative to their growth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I thought this was a generic nuclear bad response, but in that case I definitely agree.