acidburnNSA

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Nuclear engineer and consultant in the DC area. If you want to talk about how best to push the envelope in nuclear, I'm in!

Mostly interested in reactor development: https://whatisnuclear.com/reactor_history.html

And nuclear economics: https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html

Nuclear education page: https://whatisnuclear.com

Hobby blog: https://partofthething.com/thoughts/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisnuclear

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Comment · 11 hours ago

Sure, they may all be colluding together in a cynical bid to rob our future.

Or.... the full-system economics of renewables may not actually be as good as advocates claim.

Comment · 11 hours ago

What's your take on why every hyperscaler is getting into nuclear if the economics are actually as you suggest?

Comment · 4 days ago

Nuclear liability is always 100% held by the owner/operator by law in most countries. All manufacturers of equipment and components demand and are given indemnity.

Comment · 5 days ago

Doing AI assisted enggineering to explore a space and then using classical methods to validate a point design for licensing is a good approach. In licensing the vendor and the regulator check things and then also verify many times during startup. The overall safety remains good.

Comment · 5 days ago

I've got frontier models doing pretty sophisticated nuclear reactor design and analysis using open-source nuclear fission reactor tools using open-source reactor designs as baselines. It is WILD how good they do.

Comment · 10 days ago

Yup just going through the anxiety here. I even self-host my personal e-mail! This is not going to end well.

Comment · 12 days ago

Firefox reader view is made for this issue. Adjust the content width slider a bit and it's great.

Comment · 1 month ago

Yeah the scheduled time is very weird. Like who's going to come back online at the end of the window?

Comment · 1 month ago

Yes that was also packaged with my Gateway 2000

Comment · 1 month ago

I've been maintaining an emulated Pentium Pro 200 MHz Windows 95 machine on 86Box for some time with all my favorite old software from childhood. It's great for nostalgia, and if friends come over they have fun showing their kids things like SkiFree, Jezzball, and Encarta 96. Still holds up great for kids.

Comment · 1 month ago

59 different companies including mine responded to MARAD's recent RFI on nuclear powered merchant ships. Many people are realizing that wind, hydrogen, ammonia, etc are falling short for global scale shipping.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/07/2026-09...

Comment · 2 months ago

Yeah I want this on my Pebble time 2 sq!

Comment · 2 months ago

Oh man I have to try this on all the legacy Fortran nuclear reactor simulator codes originally written in the 1960s

Comment · 2 months ago

This is the type of fuel planned for the TerraPower Natrium reactor and also the Oklo sodium-cooled reactors.

Interesting stuff.

Comment · 2 months ago

How many tokens/second you getting? I have the same CPU but a 5070 and only 64 GB of ram. I just got llama.cpp built and am now hitting a whopping 5-6 tokens/s.