• ZILtoid1991
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      291 year ago

      Hear me out:

      What if we used that nuclear power only to fix the environment?

      • @Stuka@lemmy.ml
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        81 year ago

        Ok, find someone willing to pay for one for that purpose.

        Microsoft isn’t ‘we’

      • FaceDeer
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        -41 year ago

        You’re free to invest in nuclear power for that purpose if you want.

        Microsoft is investing in nuclear power to run their AI projects. They likely wouldn’t be investing in nuclear power if they didn’t have projects that needed it like this.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          111 year ago

          And the U.S. government wouldn’t have invested in all of the development that went into the Apollo program if they didn’t want to beat the Russians, but we still all benefitted from the science and the research and the development.

    • oce 🐆
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      1 year ago

      Nuclear power still requires huge front costs (goal of SMR is to reduce that, but first generations will not solve it), so it could be better to use them for every day life needs rather than a prospective commercial venture.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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      -51 year ago

      Only if there’s a meltdown, and that’s near-impossible with current reactor designs. Just don’t build in very disaster-prone areas like Florida or Japan.

      • MxM111
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        101 year ago

        I think you have misread the comment you replied to.

        • FaceDeer
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          Indeed. Using nuclear power avoids causing trouble to the ecosystem.