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
    21·
    4 months 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
        5·
        4 months 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·
          4 months 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.