• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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    1 month ago

    I’m glad you don’t make the decisions because I don’t want my taxes, that I work hard for and pay money into, to be spent by the government on highly-likely dogshit experimental brand new nuke tech that may eventually cost more money later on to maintain, and I prefer they spend it renovating existing infrastructure or building tried/true legacy nuke plant designs.

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      1 month ago

      Your taxes already go towards this.
      That’s how governments leverage capitalism to placate the people. Grants for green energy initiatives.
      Private companies get free money for taking some amount of risk because they are likely to profit massively from it.
      https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/nuclear/google-agrees-to-multi-reactor-power-deal-with-nuclear-startup-kairos
      Kairos is getting free money (grants & tax breaks) and profits from this. Google is extremely likely (can’t find a source) to be getting free money for this

      Companies EXIST to extract profit.
      Of one of the worlds most successful companies is doing this, it’s because “line goes up”.

      I’d prefer this happend so that “humans survive”.
      But “humans don’t die faster” is fine for now.

      (I guess “humans” means “poor humans”. As in anyone that doesn’t outright own 2 homes.)