Companies say it’s a better way to dispose of the Cold War-era material — and fix a shortage of nuclear fuel. But the plan has also faced criticism from nonproliferation experts.

This is why they loosened nuclear safety rules

  • HasturInYellow@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    What I genuinely predict as the future:

    In the not so distant future, where America is more a desert with hotspots of population left after the great famines and plagues over the next decade or two, Elon Musk (or some other equally replaceable garbage pile) will be a neo feudal lord with his own fiefdom and collection of peasants. He will launch a nuke at some uppity freedom loving commune simply because they were too successful at surviving in our new hellscape and were pulling too many people from his mines.

    That’s where this ends.

    Or we could follow the French method.