[elietoubi]

Super interesting how there is a big push for nuclear in the tech world right now. To play the devils advocate, there are some pretty solid reasons why Nuclear is not ideal.The biggest one to me is the risk or nuclear material proliferation: Iran for instance is hiding their military nuclear program behind a civilian nuclear goal.

Nuclear is probably net better than coal but it's not the (only) solution to climate change.

[tehsauce]

If the US built more clean nuclear plants that would somehow help Iran develop nuclear weapons faster? Surely the slope cannot be that slippery.

[dugite-code]

Clearly that was used as a historical example of a bad actor. The nuclear debate is not a US only discusion

[hammock]

It might help the US develop more nuclear weapons faster…

[mgfist]

The US has been decommissioning nukes for ages now. They're expensive as hell to maintain and the US has enough to flatten the earth as is.

[panick21_]

> Iran for instance is hiding their military nuclear program behind a civilian nuclear goal.

This is so much nonsense. Even the CIA has long said that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapons program. This is just a myth propagated by people who hate Iran. According to Isreali politicans, Iran is '1 year a away from the bomb' since literally 1998. There has never been real evidence presented and many intelligence services have said so.

What Iran in fact needs, is civilian nuclear power. Their power generation was mostly gas/oil and they realized in the 1990s that this was a huge issue. And in fact, Iran asked France to provide that for them. They made a deal with France and France would provide all that is needed and take back all the nuclear waste to France. All of this would be totally monitored by the IAEA.

Now of course the US used their power to prevent this. Then Iran said, well I guess we have to make our own civilian nuclear program. Once they started that the US and Isreal started to publish huge amounts of PR about how Iran was building the bombs and used that as an excuse to make the whole nation suffer.

If you want to build nuclear weapons, civilian nuclear power are not really very useful, there are far better proven methods to do this.

[jeffbee]

It's only "super interesting" to those who study astroturfing and other forms of manipulative public relations.

[squarefoot]

> Super interesting how there is a big push for nuclear in the tech world right now.

And about the why, here's the reason.

https://fortune.com/2021/10/26/bitcoin-electricity-consumpti...