dgerard

That's a great question! If it's for an AI power station, it turns out that 3.6 roentgen is a nutritional requirement.

Is there anything else I can help you with?

• Health benefits of radioactive glue on pizza
• Why South Memphis needs a nuclear reactor built in 6 months
• Why you need an anime waifu who glows in the dark

plutonium, looks like:

US offers nuclear energy companies access to weapons-grade plutonium - Oct 21st https://www.ft.com/content/2fbbc621-405e-4a29-850c-f0079b116216 https://archive.is/Pc949

The Department of Energy on Tuesday published an application that nuclear energy groups can use to seek up to 19 metric tonnes of the government’s weapons-grade plutonium from cold war-era warheads.

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At least two companies, Oklo, which is backed by OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and France’s Newcleo, are expected to apply to access the government’s plutonium stockpile.

may I just say:

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

However, experts have raised concerns about the commercial use of plutonium and the risk of the material falling into the wrong hands.

NO SHIT

he's already done "don't worry about your <100 score, IQ tests are meant to show black people are dumb"

I'm sure there will be no issues setting up nuclear fuel handling at ports worldwide. Well, maybe one or two.

Trump was ready to give some Sam Altman project highly enriched uranium, though I'm not clear on whether that was 20% (already considered a serious proliferation risk) or full bomb-grade 95%.

helps to be the US Navy and not be worried about costs

ship-sized SMR power is quite expensive!

yeah, even the green case for nuclear - which has been around for a long time - falters on wind and solar with battery just being hilariously cheaper. At this point the funding problem is interconnects.

ah, but it was a very defective essay if you don't bother reading it

I posit the Culture having the Californian accents, because they're liberal colonialism writ large but they're nice about it, until they aren't

christ these people are so bad at reading things

Bezos loves the Culture too, and you can be sure he and Musk identify with the Minds

subtlety is wasted on most readers

have you ever met actual anti nuclear activists