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Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by Filligree on Saturday December 13, 2025 @09:42AM (#46254846)
Radiation from coal goes into the air and tailings, which aren’t well controlled, and stays dangerous for centuries.

Radiation from nuclear waste is constrained to steel casks in cooling ponds, and the waste can be reprocessed for use in breeder reactors instead of letting it sit.

Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by rmoriz on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:36AM (#46255272)
The costs of protecting nuclear waste for 100.000 years from terrorists and during wars will be impossible. It's a super easy target. Just attack the power plants and nuclear waste facilities of the opponent and you have won the war.
Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by SoftTalker on Saturday December 13, 2025 @11:43AM (#46255884)
Well we've had them since the 1950s, where are all these terrorist attacks? The only nuclear disasters have been accidental, and those were made worse by early reactor designs that didn't account for safety to the degree necessary.
Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by rmoriz on Sunday December 14, 2025 @01:22PM (#46265395)
The Twin Towers were attacked almost 30 years after.