You know you’re old when Three Mile Island is living memory rather than history.

The reactor accident began at 4:00 a.m. on March 28, 1979, and released radioactive gases and radioactive iodine into the environment. It is the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history, although its small radioactive releases had no detectable health effects on plant workers or the public. The accident was the largest release of radioactive material in U.S. history until it was exceeded by the Church Rock uranium mill spill four months later. On the seven-point logarithmic International Nuclear Event Scale, the TMI-2 reactor accident is rated Level 5, an "Accident with Wider Consequences."

Right on time to start using nuclear power for AI. How convenient. I hope they don't cut corners or lie about the data and cause a Nuclear incident. That couldn't happen twice, right?

Oh this will be fun

Watch "Chernobyl" by HBO, if u old enough to remember that, at the time it was all lies and cover ups.

I did a deep dive into reactors in general and concluded:

Even with "better, safer (theory 100% safe)" reactor designs are vulnerable to fail (sometimes catastrophically) given

1)external(Social, energy) pressure: 3Mile, Chernobyl, Fuck-You-Shima, all were entirely preventable BUT given "social" pressures (whether capitalist, communist or zibatsu) there is always pressure to do things "cheap"

2)all reactor designs, when off line, need (sometimes up to 2 years!) of cooling to avoid disasters. This means when you wanna turn off, they are massive long term energy vampires. Thusly: all reactors, given social collapse, where there is not freely available staff and surplus power, red line, sometimes to meltdown. So plagues, war, catastrophe, social breakdown... all over the world...

3)"safe" reactors are designed so for 50 years. They are then "unsafe" but it takes years and billions$ to shut them down (and you need to replace capacity!). A vast number of original power plants are past or passing threshold. To my knowledge, no political system pre banked the money and resources to shut and replace. So we are just patching cracks, and operating less safely (there will be a bunch of these disasters in next decades)

?What kind of idiot lights a fire that you can not extinguish, and can not leave unattended!