AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement

Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by rmoriz on Saturday December 13, 2025 @10:34AM (#46255254)

if you operate a coal plant for 3 years until the bubble bursts, you will emit 3 years of toxins and carbon dioxide. If you operate a nuclear plant for just one minute, your highly radioactive waste will be a burden for thousands of generations.

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Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by SoftTalker on Saturday December 13, 2025 @11:40AM (#46255861)

Nuclear waste is not a burden. It's very manageable. The problem would be in any uncontained accident. The probability of that is low but not zero, especially in old reactor designs such as the ones they are talking about reactivating.

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Re:AI is bringing old nuclear plants out of retirement by ponector on Saturday December 13, 2025 @08:25PM (#46260001)

Compare in tons please, not in minutes.

Coal has heavy metals and traces of radioactive materials in it. Multiply to the thousands tons and maybe they are more harmful than nuclear.

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