Tootfinder

Seeing the discussion, I’d like to clarify:
This post is not a statement on #nuclear energy. I was responding to the specific article that I shared, where @… reported that tech companies are “using AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.”
My point is - cutting corners and trying to “speed up” the construction or operation of nuclear power plants can have CATASTROPHIC effects.
Chernobyl was a disaster of mismanagement, cost cutting, and insufficient safety procedures.
I do not trust AI, a technology that is notoriously probabilistic and inconsistent in outputs (and with famously high error rates) to be reliable and competent for a use case where the risks are this high.
I also do not support the mindset of wanting to “speed up” ANY regulatory processes and safety checks when it comes to constructing nuclear power infrastructure.
Licensing is not a “bottleneck” here. It’s a safety prerogative.
(Thanks @… for bringing this to my attention!)

WTF? #Trump announced that nuclear-weapons tests will be resumed despite the US having signed (but not ratified) the Comprehensive #NuclearTest-Ban Treaty.
As happened numerous times during the ages-old arms race, this move – justified with other nations' alleged

USA wollen wieder Atomwaffen testen
Seit 1992 testen die USA keine Atomwaffen mehr, nun will der US-Präsident wieder damit anfangen. Die Tests sollen "unverzüglich" wieder aufgenommen werden, erklärte Trump kurz vor einem Treffen mit Chinas Staatschef Xi.

So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.
A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.
I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:
- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).
- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.
- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.
- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.
- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.
- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.
Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/

Zelensky apparently warned the world today of nuclear-armed drones if authoritarian and lawless governments continue to be allowed to wage war and threaten liberal nations.
ugh.
#ArmsRace #nuclear #RussiaUkraine #Ukraine

Using systems that can barely write a coherent sentence or return verifiable results in a search, to "speed up the construction" of one of the most complex and dangerous systems ever devised by humans?
What could go wrong?
I also watched MELTDOWN - Three Mile Island on Netflix last night… it's good.
#AI #LLM #NuclearSlop #WereAllGonnaDie #Stupid #Human #Nuclear https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115549364008098533