17 connected korrents · 16 moments from 12 Jun 2017 to 20 Sept 2026.
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There will be more nuclear accidents, because every one of them exposes a vulnerability nobody had imagined: Chernobyl, then a tsunami, then a war.
Last stated 4 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
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Serhii Plokhy
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Nuclear safety should be pursued by reducing the consequence of an accident rather than its odds, because something unpredictable always happens.
Last stated 15 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Isaiah Taylor
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People are far less frightened of nuclear weapons than they should be, and that is a more serious danger than the ones they do fear.
Last stated 3 Dec 2023 · 3 years ago
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Lisa Randall
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Risks that would make a good climax scene in a movie carry far more weight with people than slow-burn harms that kill many more, which is why nuclear reactors frighten us and coal plants do not.
Last stated 18 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
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Sam Altman
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America stopped building reactors because Three Mile Island was mismanaged as a public-relations event, not because anyone was harmed by it.
Last stated 15 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Isaiah Taylor
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Most nuclear companies will not have this solved by 2031, and many still will not by 2035, because they have the wrong mindset.
Last stated 15 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Isaiah Taylor
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If AI is risky like fire, everyone should have it; if it is risky like a nuclear weapon, no one should.
Last stated 16 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Naval Ravikant
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The Soviet Union fell in good part because of the mobilisation over Chernobyl: the first mass demonstrations in Ukraine were about radiation, not about language or autonomy.
Last stated 4 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
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Serhii Plokhy
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The Pentagon's own war games found that no matter how a nuclear war starts, it ends in Armageddon with everyone dead.
Last stated 22 Mar 2024 · 3 years ago
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Annie Jacobsen
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Same subject: energy
"Carbon intensity" metrics let oil companies claim climate progress even as their total emissions rise from increased production.
Last stated 9 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Emily Atkin
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Same subject: energy
"Food from thin air" is not from thin air: it runs on water, minerals, ammonia and industrial plant.
Last stated 30 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Chris Smaje
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Same subject: energy
A country outside the AI supply chain should just buy the index — which works only in the world where AI ends up commoditised rather than concentrated.
Last stated 4 Jun 2026 · 5 months ago
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Alex Imas
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Same subject: permitting
A healthy attitude may be to assume a rule had a reason but default to removing it, since situations might change.
Last stated 20 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Armin Ronacher
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Same subject: permitting
A neighbourhood redevelops itself when rising land values meet permission to build more intensely, and it stagnates when either half is missing.
Last stated 12 Jun 2017 · 9 years ago
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Charles Marohn
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Same subject: permitting
Certification, not engineering, is what gates revenue for a new aircraft company.
Last stated 30 Jan 2023 · 4 years ago
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Eli Dourado
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Same subject: America
A century of fire suppression policy in the American West has dangerously overloaded forests with fuel and made megafires more likely.
Last stated 22 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Jennifer Pahlka
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Same subject: America
A Chinese crewed landing on the Moon before America returns would be a defeat for the free world.
Last stated 18 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Casey Handmer
Eric Berger
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Same subject: America
A city's first rail line comes in at a reasonable cost and every line after it does not, because the follow-up outgrows the in-house team that oversaw the pilot.
Last stated 7 Dec 2024 · 2 years ago
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Alon Levy