Re:DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear po...
by kelnos on Saturday August 10, 2024 @02:36AM
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Maybe the reason for the low number of deaths is the high levels of tight regulation.
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Re:DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear po...
by Weryj on Saturday August 10, 2024 @03:38AM
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Yeah, I was about to say.
We consider it safe because it’s tightly controlled and very centralized, but that has no connection to how safe it would be as a consumer product. Just because it contains the same material, doesn’t mean anything, because the methods of harm that could emerge have never existed.
Ingestion, trash disposal, recycling contamination, the infinite ways you could accidentally destroy a device.
Re:DARPA wants to bypass the thermal middleman in nuclear po...
by jessriedel on Saturday August 10, 2024 @06:22PM
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Of course. But whenever you're balancing downside X against upside Y, and the downsize is now essentially zero, this is prima facie evidence you're picking the wrong trade-off.