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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Sheng Wang is hilarious! Seriously, if you like comedy then watch his stuff

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

plus a side of extra spicy landfill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

"safe nuclear": Between 1944 and 1971, pump systems drew as much as 75,000 US gallons per minute (4,700 L/s) of cooling water from the Columbia River to dissipate the heat produced by the reactors. Before its release into the river, the used water was held in large tanks known as retention basins for up to six hours. Longer-lived isotopes were not affected by this retention, and several terabecquerels entered the river every day. The federal government kept knowledge about these radioactive releases secret.

[–] Tar_alcaran 3 points 2 weeks ago

That's from building nuclear weapons though, not power

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

nerd actually space based nuclear uses thermoelectric

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And then there are thermonuclear generators

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The nuclear batteries small enough for handheld devices that we've been reading about recently don't use any water.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Those have been researched and tested for decades and the tech still hasn't caught on. They just don't put out enough power to be useful for much more than a clock circuit (not even enough to power a full watch, just keep the time).

I have serious doubts they're going to suddenly become viable anytime soon.

Any useful energy production from nuclear is basically just making steam to run turbines. Same with coal but you know.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

still waiting for those molten fuel MHD reactors

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