▲ 168 ▼ AI data centers may soon be powered by retired US Navy nuclear reactors from aircraft carriers and submarines (www.tomshardware.com) submitted 7 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip [M] to c/technology@lemmy.zip 51 comments fedilink hide all child comments This is a much cheaper and faster way to get nuclear power.
[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (1 child) The wiki on radiation embrittlement is pretty good reading for any mechanical engineers out there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_embrittlement permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Gust@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago This is a big part of why the LHC experiment is so expensive. Turns out that equipment that exists to create high energy collisions (and as a product a lot of spicy radiation) goes brittle or the sensors go dark pretty quickly and need to be replaced a lot. I did sim work on a replacement detector setup for the experiment back in undergrad and the lions share of my simulations were showing how the crystals would perform at various levels of degradation permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Gust@piefed.social 2 points 7 months ago This is a big part of why the LHC experiment is so expensive. Turns out that equipment that exists to create high energy collisions (and as a product a lot of spicy radiation) goes brittle or the sensors go dark pretty quickly and need to be replaced a lot. I did sim work on a replacement detector setup for the experiment back in undergrad and the lions share of my simulations were showing how the crystals would perform at various levels of degradation permalink fedilink source parent