The AI industry is desperate for data centre power anywhere it can get it. They can’t get gas turbines without years of delay. Even the repurposed jet engine gas turbines they were really hoping wo…
  • diz@awful.systemsEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I think it’s not very difficult to construct a really shitty small reactor that is horrendously expensive per watt. Can probably be built in a year if you get rid of NRC and just half ass it completely.

    I mean, Demon Core was a small reactor. You pretty much have to do a lot of work to ensure you won’t create a small reactor when a truckload of fresh fuel falls into a river.

    What’s difficult is making a safe reactor that is actually making electricity at somewhat reasonable price per watt.

    • Jonathan Hendry@iosdev.space
      2·
      3 days ago

      @diz

      “You pretty much have to do a lot of work to avoid creating a small reactor, if a truckload of fresh fuel falls into a river.”

      Don’t give them any ideas.

      • diz@awful.systemsEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I’m afraid they already had that exact idea when they named the startup “oklo”.