AI data centers may soon be powered by retired Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines — firm asks U.S. DOE for a loan guarantee to start the project
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This is a much cheaper and faster way to get nuclear power.

This is a much cheaper and faster way to get nuclear power.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    113·
    2 days ago

    they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.

    As opposed to the military handling disposal of the reactor materials… which is paid by… the taxpayers.

    You didn’t think this comment through every much, or at all really, did you?

    • punksnotdead@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      I think this song epitomises what rafoix replied with

      Safety rules - corners cut
      Just to keep the profits up
      Money saved - profits rise
      But consequence is someone dies

      Victim of a chemical spillage

      Safety regulations breached
      Critical concentrations reached
      Money is saved but a live is lost
      Loved ones left to count the cost

      Tanker crashing the village
      Death could from the spillage
      No escape from the fumes
      Peoples’ homes become their tombs

      In the face of corporate greed
      Ecodefence is what we need
      Read and act upon this text
      Or you become the next victim of a chemical spillage

      https://youtu.be/Q3sHdN4f_TI

    • rafoix@lemmy.zipEnglish
      81·
      2 days ago

      I trust the military doing it to spec a million times more than any company executives. It’ll probably be left to pollute the area they hide it for decades before taxpayers have to pay for it.

      • teft@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        The military probably will do better than a private company but also remember that the military has had numerous toxic waste problems. Camp Lejeune’s cancers and all the firefighting PFAs contaminating water supplies are just two i can think of off the top of my head but i’m sure theres many more.

    • BussyCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      The DOE doing it is already financially accounted for and there is a professional staff that are trained on how to do it