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Re:Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers... by WorldPeas on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @06:54PM (#45908621)
> Worse than nukes race, which at least did not affect common man At least not visibly, we were deprived of a clean source of surgical steel and many in the areas were uncompensated for sicknesses they experienced as a result of testing
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Re:Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers... by Dylan16807 on Thursday November 13, 2025 @03:02AM (#45912094)
Why would it matter for surgical steel?

I can find vague mentions of "medical" uses for low background steel, and one specific claim that it's used to shield some rooms or large devices for measuring how much radiation is coming off a person's body. That's pretty niche.

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Re:Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers... by WorldPeas on Monday November 17, 2025 @12:22PM (#45955731)
Looking into this point further, I'll agree. I shouldn't have acted on an anecdote without verifying first. The other fact though is one that I'm certain of.
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Re:Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers... by solarwinds on Thursday November 13, 2025 @05:58AM (#45913400)
Yeah, another hot take from some guy who has no clue what he's talking about.

To this day Kazakhstan pays out monthly monetary compensations to people whose health was negatively affected by the nuclear tests on the Semipalatinsk nuclear polygon. Several people I know personally receive these compensations.

https://egov.kz/cms/en/news/nuclear_tests

https://egov.kz/cms/en/services/family_support/pass035_mtszn

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Re:Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers... by WorldPeas on Thursday November 13, 2025 @12:25PM (#45917672)
That didn't even come to mind. Call me Ameri-centric but my mind was on the Native Americans who to this day are the "most nuked" and have not been compensated

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/8/29/a-message-from-...

https://reimaginerpe.org/node/165

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