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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/68257855

Nuclear is the best btw.

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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

“Indestructible”?

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

Thanks for the laugh, pal.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

And these will all be built by who? Corporations? You think they want to keep things safe or keep things cheap?

Even if this silly demonstration was a good example, the enshittification will begin almost immediately.

Its why every nuclear Superfund site to this day has not been addressed. Because there is money to be made in not really doing anything.

[–] HellieSkellie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That video is strange marketing nonsense. Running a train doesn't apply the same forces and wear-down as nature will, just ask your mother.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

My momma doesn't work in hazardous materials handling, I do. So maybe your mom can ask me?

[–] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

so a train will be less terrible than to be stored in seismically inactive rock?

yes, see: https://lemmy.cafe/comment/17134894

When you run a test, you want to minimize variables and keep as many things constant as possible between tests if you want to prove something.

Amazingly there are not a lot of constants between seismically inactive rock and a fucking train

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In the 1990s, the NRC had to “take repeated actions to address defective welds on dry casks that led to cracks and quality assurance problems; helium had leaked into some casks, increasing temperatures and causing accelerated fuel corrosion”.[11]

With the zeroing of the federal budget for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada in 2011, more nuclear waste began being stored in dry casks. Many of these casks are stored in coastal or lakeside regions where a salt air environment exists, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology posited that corrosion in these environments could occur in 30 years or less, while the NRC was studying whether the casks could be used for 100 years as some hoped.[12]

Impervious to absolutely anything, except a little helium, or slightly salty air.

[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or budget cuts, corrupt management, lazy employees, bad training etc...

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 day ago

And the “seismically inactive geology” that somehow always funnels into a local aquifer.