Now that it’s about 60 days post-CrowdStrike’s historic BSOD global calamity, MS has layoffs AND announces they’re going to bring Three Mile Island nuclear power station online to power its data centers.
Are they thinking we don’t remember CrowdStrike? Are they maniacally insane as well as life threateningly greedy?
@MookyTroubadour Microsoft won't be operating Three Mile Island Unit 1, that'll be Constellation Energy.
And I'll have you know that nuclear energy is actually the second-safest (& safest viable baseload) energy source when it comes to casualties per unit energy (yes, including all nuclear disasters).
For perspective, on average natural gas causes 94X more deaths per TWh, hydro causes 43X more deaths per TWh, and even wind causes 33% more deaths per TWh.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh
@IrelandTorin tell me about the half life on the spent fuel rods.
@MookyTroubadour At the end of the day, it's largely irrelevant.
Since the vast majority of the fissile element(s) in a "spent" fuel rod are intact, they can be reprocessed (1970s tech) to produce new fuel - with the fission products separated out + processed to create medically & industrially useful isotopes.
The remainder, the real waste, will be far less than 1% the mass of the original fuel - & can be buried so deep that the only fate it could ever experience is resorption into the mantle.