The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.
  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    7 hours ago

    ChatGPT is going to nuke my house for repeatedly asking it if there’s a seahorse emoji.

    In all seriousness though, I assume it’s for nuclear power to satisfy the exponentially growing need for electricity, but if we’re going to be building reactors they should be powering the grid and reducing our dependency on fossil fuels, not privately owned reactors for corporations.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        6 hours ago

        Now I’m wondering if plants that are designed to run enriched uranium will have to be totally rejiggered or it’s a relatively simple change.

        • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          5 hours ago

          It might require a great deal of rejiggering because the fission output of the materials are not one to one. Kinda the whole point of weapons grade, you can’t achieve a neutron cascade for efficiency in a weapon if you don’t already have a kinda unstable “rock”. Granted some reactors are designed to work better with a doped mix already.

      • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        4 hours ago

        I don’t even have to read the article to know it’s going to be absolutely overflowing with misinformation and exaggeration and outright lies for clicks.

        Nobody knows how nuclear power or fission works, people broadly cannot fathom any of it, but it sure sells a headline.

    • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      Maybe it’s a start?

      I know our future is probably going to be a war and famine torn hellscape of human suffering no matter what happens, but it’s possible in the medium-term future this will be a good thing.

      I mean, there’s nothing we can do to stop this wacky combination of tech oligarchs without a shred of human sanity and a government run by toddlers and podcasters, but AT LEAST this may lead to the normalization of nuclear power.

      I thought growing up on PBS that people everywhere would be embracing nuclear power by now, but it turns out that I might be part of the 0.00001% of the population who have even a trace of knowledge how it works, and people are largely still terrified of nuclear power plants. Fukushima didn’t help with that.

      Another way of looking at it, Sammy is gonna make absolutely sure that ChatGTP only spouts positive propaganda about nuclear power, which while he’s doing it for his personal gain, if it makes people embrace it more, it will actually help us all.

      Alternatively, just dirty bombs for the next century.