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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Yes, those “tips” were like 2 meters long, basically, instead of just being breaks, the rods had dual function and also acted as accelerators, when they pressed az-5, they didn’t enter first, they were already in the core, but something happened which I don’t understand where once az-5 was pressed as those tips started lowering an imbalance formed and they they got stuck and it resulted in a runaway reaction, I think at least that’s accepted as the most likely theory as IIRC they don’t exactly know what happened.










  • That’s mostly because the west has become a bad place to build things, bike-shedding and a general loss of nuclear building expertise lost due to successful campaigning against nuclear by the fossil fuel industry.

    We could be scaling up nuclear right now to help the goals for 2050 to be reached and then coast for a while as renewables pickup pace and fusion is finally cracked.

    But no only thing people care about is immediate cost.

    Yes renewables are cheaper per kw at the moment but they are also putting a lot of strain on the grid that’s not accounted for that’s expensive to upgrade, they are also not scaling up fast enough, which means there will be added cost to climate change.

    Vs we could build nuclear reactors at a loss and bring on serious gigawatts of clean energy in a decade that would provide a stable baseline.