The thread that glows in the dark

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Continuation of the “Nukes” thread from the other place.

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Amazon’s nuclear datacenter dreams stall as regulators reject power deal

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From the (Australian) ABC

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I wonder if this is (not necessarily particular) what Bezos was thinking about when he remained silent about Trump.

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This is non-nuclear, but it is a thread that glows in the dark.

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half-life of 0.78 seconds

So, not practical as a building material.

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Well, you’ll have to be really quick.

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Short info about every site in the second link.

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[…]
The finalists include GE Hitachi, Holtec, Rolls-Royce SMR, and Westinghouse. These have already passed through two rounds of assessment by GBN, formerly known as British Nuclear Fuels Ltd, which whittled down the original six applicants that were considered last year.
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Ah, another round of power point reactors.

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“Now with AI!”

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Ugh. This SMR horseshit again. You know what would be great? Cram thirty submarines-worth of piping together for a reactor complex that’s either unworkably inefficient or dangerously complex or BOTH!

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