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Fission as an energy source: what it costs, what it risks, and whether anything else can do the job.

What people on korrents have said about nuclear power, newest first — 11 positions from 8 people.

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Who Everyone DMDavid MacKay 4 DPDylan Patel 1 HWHillel Wayne 1 ITIsaiah Taylor 1 MHMolson Hart 1 NSNoah Smith 1 PKPaul Krugman 1 TCTyler Cowen 1
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  1. NS

    Noah Smith quoted

    Our readingSolar power combined with batteries has surpassed nuclear power as the superior energy technology for most uses.

    Their wordsBecause solar has, broadly speaking, won the technological race. Intermittency was the last big problem, and batteries have gotten good and cheap enough to make solar reliable.

    ↗Why you won’t get a flying carnoahpinion.blog

    solarenergybatteries

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  2. 2 days earlier
  3. TC

    Tyler Cowen quoted

    Our readingSocieties have a pattern of drastically overreacting to a problem after one emotionally vivid incident, as with DDT, Y2K, and nuclear power

    Their wordsYet each time, we drastically overreacted, letting ourselves get swept up in a climate of fear after one emotionally vivid incident

    ↗The Hugging Face hackmarginalrevolution.com

    energy

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  4. 2 weeks earlier
  5. IT

    Isaiah Taylor quoted

    Our readingNuclear is empirically the safest form of energy -- safer even than solar, once you count the people who fall off roofs.

    Their wordsNuclear energy is the safest form of energy empirically. If you look at the amount of power generated versus the amount amount of deaths, um it's even safer than solar, which is very strange because how does someone die from solar? that actually most solar is installed on roofs and people sometimes die falling off of a roof installing solar and if you add those deaths up it is actually a higher death per energy than the totality of nuclear energy in the world.

    ↗How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Tayloryoutube.com 6th of 18 in this recording

    solarenergy

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  6. 2 weeks earlier
  7. HW

    Hillel Wayne quoted

    Our readingNuclear power plants, the standard example of software that must be proved correct, do not care about formal verification: thorough testing is enough for them.

    Their wordsbut I can tell you with first hand experience nuclear power plants do not care about this stuff. They're actually just fine with with with thorough testing.

    ↗Formal methods with Hillel Wayneyoutube.com 10th of 24 in this recording

    energyformal proof

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  8. 9 months earlier
  9. PK

    Paul Krugman quoted

    Our readingThe hard-headed realists who wrote America's 2001 energy policy expected renewables to stay trivial, and were wrong by an enormous margin.

    Their wordsBut politics aside, what’s notable about that 2001 report, put together by men who regarded themselves as hard-headed realists, is that it envisaged an energy future reliant almost entirely on fossil fuels plus a bit of nuclear energy.

    ↗The Rise of Renewable Energypaulkrugman.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece

    energyAmericapolitics

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  10. 7 months earlier
  11. MH

    Molson Hart quoted

    Our readingAmerican manufacturing output cannot meaningfully rise without first building large amounts of new electricity generation.

    Their wordsWithout the construction of huge amounts of new energy infrastructure, like nuclear power plants, we cannot meaningfully increase our manufacturing output.

    ↗America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Backmolsonhart.com 6th of 16 in this piece

    energyAmericainfrastructure

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  12. 2 months earlier
  13. DP

    Dylan Patel quoted

    Our readingThe copyright problem in AI training already has a legal solution nobody is taking: train the models in Japan, where copyright does not apply to training data.

    Their wordsSo, Japan has a law which you're allowed to train on any training data and copyrights don't apply if you want to train a model, A. B, Japan has 9 gigawatts of curtailed nuclear power. C, Japan is allowed under the AI diffusion rule to import as many GPUs as they'd like.

    ↗DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters | Lex Fridman Podcast #459youtube.com 31st of 44 in this recording

    energysemiconductors

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  14. 16 years earlier
  15. DM

    David MacKay quoted

    Our readingThe price of nuclear power is dominated by construction and decommissioning costs, not fuel costs.

    Their wordsnuclear power’s price is dominated by the cost of power-station construction and decommissioning, not by the cost of the fuel.

    ↗Sustainable Energy — without the hot airinference.org.uk 16th of 27 in this piece

    energy

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  17. DM

    David MacKay quoted

    Our readingNuclear power is dangerous, but not uniquely so among energy sources like coal, oil, and wind.

    Their wordsNuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It’s just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.

    ↗Sustainable Energy — without the hot airinference.org.uk 17th of 27 in this piece

    energy

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  19. DM

    David MacKay quoted

    Our readingNuclear waste is only a minor worry compared with the other forms of waste being left to future generations.

    Their wordsI feel nuclear waste is only a minor worry, compared with all the other forms of waste we are inflicting on future generations.

    ↗Sustainable Energy — without the hot airinference.org.uk 18th of 27 in this piece

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  21. DM

    David MacKay quoted

    Our readingEurope cannot meet its energy needs from renewables alone and will need nuclear power, solar power from deserts elsewhere, or both.

    Their wordsJust like Britain, Europe can’t live on its own renewables. So if the aim is to get off fossil fuels, Europe needs nuclear power, or solar power in other people’s deserts (as discussed on p179), or both.

    ↗Sustainable Energy — without the hot airinference.org.uk 23rd of 27 in this piece

    solarenergyEurope

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