[kiryandil]

All of that hard propaganda work against nuclear by Hanoi Jane in The China Syndrome, down the drain!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Big tech is pivoting to nuclear energy, will the rest of the world follow?

Yes. The big obstacle in the way of fission power adoption in the West has been the Left. Since the Left is so tightly bound to Big Tech these days, they'll cave to whatever Big Tech wants. If Big Tech wants fission reactors, so be it - just keep the donations to the Left's PACs coming.

[linMcHlp]

Reliability depends on reliability of people doing the work.

All sizes of nuclear power generators, require reliability.

There are many proposed versions of “small” / “small modular” [factory built modules] . . . nuclear reactors. They all include technical, durability and reliability problems.

Government is not established as being reliable nor wise about the decision-making that pronounces approval. Government, now, being obsessed with funneling all decisions thru the leftists’ DEI thresher that re-allocates work on the basis of whomever progressives consider to be entitled.

That, meaning, that merit is missing, and therefore durability and reliability . . . and truth . . . are missing.

That, meaning, that government and all of DEI, are “oriented” toward fleeing from every failure that is a consequence of progressives replacing merit with DEI.

[rottndog]

This is inevitable. Eventually the fraud of renewables will run its’ course and nukes will be the last man standing.

[Paladin2]

Fusion is still but 10 years away?

[irishjuggler]

If you look at the popular science magazines of the late 1940s, early 1950s, there was a fairly widespread expectation that small-scale nuclear reactors would provide such cheap and abundant power that they’d be ubiquitous very soon. There was even speculation that tiny reactors might directly power homes and automobiles. Let’s fact it... It could have happened, but for a lot of reasons (bad PR due to accidents, stifling of innovation by traditional power companies eager to maintain the status quo, etc) it didn’t happen. It may happen yet, though.

[mewzilla]

That’s funny...

Then where are all our record energy exports going...? 🤔

[Zathras]

Most likely they realized that Fusion power will always be 20 years away.
The math is easy to see that Solar and wind will never be a major player.

[kickstart]

Why can't they run an AI data facility with wind power and solar? Is it because they need a reliable electric grid baseload free of voltage fluctuations?

Even AI realizes that technological advances depend on reliable inexpensive sources of energy.

[Wuli]

To me it is a dam shame that a movement to nuclear is only getting traction now because “Big Tech” wants in on it.

Someone needs to YELL at “Big Tech” and say - NO NUCLEAR POWER FOR YOU, YOU have to get your energy from all those windmills and solar panels you have invested so much in telling the rest of us that’s what we need.