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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by kragen on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:00PM (#26674731)
Well, in part due to the nuclear weapons programs, the US and Soviet governments told a lot of lies about nuclear energy in the 01940s, 01950s, 01960s, and 01970s. A lot of the science on things like nuclear fuel enrichment isn't actually available publicly, even today, only to people whose families have been interviewed to make sure they will lie if the government orders to.

So the US Secretary of the Navy is in a position to make an informed decision about nuclear reactors—and he's chosen to run a significant part of the US Navy on them—but the voting public is not.

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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by effie on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:32PM (#26675115)
I'll bite, what's up with those zero prefixes?
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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by cpeterso on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:51PM (#26675253)
Preparation for the Y10K problem. Five-digit years is something the Long Now Foundation started using to encourage people to think longer term:

https://longnow.org/about/

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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by thelean12 on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:26PM (#26676179)
Holy hell, talk about premature. That's 100 lifetimes away.

Is it still April 1st?

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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by kragen on Friday April 02, 2021 @06:50PM (#26676767)
> That's 100 lifetimes away.

Such a pessimist!

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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by ethbr0 on Friday April 02, 2021 @08:50PM (#26677452)
Fine, 0100 lifetimes away.
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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by stjohnswarts on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:25PM (#26675578)
lol that's ridiculous. We'll either have wiped ourselves out by then or be so far beyond problems like Y2K that it's a ridiculous thing to worry about
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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by kragen on Friday April 02, 2021 @05:31PM (#26676208)
More fun than worrying about global pandemics or nuclear meltdowns!
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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by krrrh on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:56PM (#26675292)
It’s promoted by the Long Now Foundation, as a way of encouraging thinking on 10,000 year time scales.

https://longnow.org/

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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by why_Mr_Anderson on Friday April 02, 2021 @04:17PM (#26675492)
That's so -idiotic- short term thinking. 10k years is nothing in the timescale of the universe.
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Re:Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standar... by radicalcentrist on Friday April 02, 2021 @03:48PM (#26675229)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Now_Foundation
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