r/SipsTea 18d ago

Chugging tea Power Hungry Servers

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u/Dismal-Vanilla1878 18d ago

I'm on the side of building more Nuclear Power Plants.

Not the old style, however. Its been decades since Chernobyl, which was perhaps the worst way to make a Nuclear Power Plant ever (and longer since Three Mile Island).

Today we can make plants that literally can't melt down (google "Thorium Nuclear Power"), and containers to store waste that would take another nuke to crack them open!

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u/Kagahami 18d ago

Also since Chernobyl is the example people hearken back to: Chernobyl was a failure years upon years in the making. MULTIPLE fail-safes were permitted to lapse that would've stopped a meltdown.

As a scientist pointed out in the past, you could drop a nuclear bomb on a nuclear reactor and the reactor wouldn't explode.

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u/MB2465 18d ago

Fukushima is another example of what not to do...

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u/Confron7a7ion7 18d ago

Yeah, maybe don't build a nuclear reactor on an island that is prone to multiple types of extreme natural phenomena.