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[–] UnderpantsWeevil 133 points 2 months ago (57 children)

Crazy how quickly we've gone from "Nuclear is a dead technology, it can't work and its simply too expensive to build more of. Y'all have to use fossil fuels instead" to "We're building nuclear plants as quickly as our contractors can draft them, but only for doing experiments in high end algorithmic brute-forcing".

Would be nice if some of that dirt-cheap, low-emission, industrial capacity electricity was available for the rest of us.

[–] EncryptKeeper 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t think they’re even building many. The article uses the word “adopt” because they’re kinda reviving old power plants. Three Mile Island being one of them.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 6 points 2 months ago

I don’t think they’re even building many.

You might want to read the article.

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