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Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power

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589 points atomic128 | 1 comments | 14 Oct 24 19:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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qwertox ◴[14 Oct 24 20:59 UTC] No.41841932[source]▶
We should have learned by now that as soon as things go south, be it a radioactive leak or worse, it won't be any company which will cover the costs related to solving the caused problem. It will be the taxpayer.
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williamDafoe ◴[15 Oct 24 00:58 UTC] No.41843861[source]▶
At current rate of once in 1,000 year accidents (3 in 70 years) we will make all the land on rarth radioactive in 250,000 years ...
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1. preisschild ◴[15 Oct 24 08:59 UTC] No.41846506[source]▶
That assumes that we don't learn from accidents, which isn't really the case. Nobody builds extremely-unsafe RBMK reactors anymore, for example.

And the TMI accident didnt really make any land radioactive and Fukushima seems cleanup-able.