So I got a job at this company back in the day that did phone and email customer service for other companies.
I was one of the last people they ever hired. Me and 7 other people were shown to our cubicles that had brand new Dell sff computers and peripherals in their boxes.
We were told the IT guys were off or on sick leave and I offered to try and set the machines up at least to save time. With the help of the others we plugged everything in and then kinda sat there all day doing nothing.
Next day we all show up for work and we see people carrying boxes out of the building. Turns out the owner was neck deep in debt and just dissappeared, people were told they shouldn't be expecting any more paychecks or bother suing.
Basically the manager told everyone to just sort of take whatever they want home and everyone just took their work PC home. Me and 7 other people basically got a free PC for half a day's work, others got shafted though...
All I'm trying to say here is maybe DON'T SELL NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIER REACTORS to private companies that are 100% going to go tits up soon when yet another tech bubble bursts and those reactors end up being sold on AliExpress?
They should be forced to make their own clean power plants. No clean coal, no natural gas. Only renewable since it is a guarantee that they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.
Nuclear energy is a con
It's just a cover for making their bombs
And it sends people to an early grave
So we want the power of the wind and the waves
Harness the wind
Harness the waves
We don't need this filthy nuclear waste
Solar power - yet another alternative
Think of the boundless energy the sun has to give
Then there's hydro-electricity with turbines and dams
And we can cut our consumption with conservation programmes
Harness the wind
The sun the waves
We don't need this filthy nuclear waste
The civil atomic energy programmes is nothing but an elaborate cover-up for the real use of nuclear power namely the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons
We call for an end to the nuclear power programmes and properly funded research into renewable sources of energy
Harness the wind
The sun the waves
We don't need this filthy nuclear waste
Even the clean energy supplied datacenters will heavily pollute the water used to cool it. So, even if we do that, we should still be pushing to reduce the amount of datacenters being built right now...
I'm just a former Navy Nuke, but I see a major issue with this. Namely, by the time we retire ship-board nuclear reactors, they have been absorbing neutrons and radiation for 30 years, so the steel is weak enough that you could put a ball-peen hammer through it.
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
Weapons grade uranium is so expensive and energy intensive to make that I can’t imagine they would ever pay for it and the fuel is at end of life so would need refueling soon.
The navy likely puts a safety margin on the fuel so there is probably some life left in the fuel but I would be very surprised if it lasted more than a year or two which is where I am confused on how this would work
Aircraft carriers don't use reactor grade, they use HEU for more power out of smaller more compact reactors and less frequent refueling. IIRC 93%+ is common.
Yes. The new scam of smr is selling something inferior that hasn't failed yet, but needs massive enrichment infrastrucure for very high comparative fuel costs.... Mostly imported from russia until we build more failures to enrich it.
Has MS done anything with all the IPs they bought over the last 10v or so years? I haven’t seen anything new in an old IP that’s excited me in the gaming world.
Do the people that think this a good idea just not see how fast they are trying to prop up new AI datacenters?
Corners are being cut everywhere to get these things built so quickly
I honestly wouldn't even trust them with to make their own power safely even with things like hydro, wind or geothermal
But fucking nuclear of all things?
They know it would take decades to build the actual nuclear power plants to run everything so they decided to instead try buying nuclear power generators that are already several decades old
Everything about project certainty and costs is a lie here.
Moving reactors to somewhere permanent that isn't prime waterfront dock space, reactors past their design life, is simply not realistic. Low ball cost estimates with loan guarantees is the typical nuclear energy boondoggle.
These are just the initial cost estimates over decommission process, but if it were feasible, part of initial design, this wouldn't be an "afterthought scam".
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