[FUD] GT300 is codenamed Fermi

[Helloworld_98]

So we're looking at high heat output and instability?

I'd hardly call nuclear fission unstable, 1 failure in 55 years with 100s of reactors isn't exactly a high number.

[tdream]

I'd hardly call nuclear fission unstable, 1 failure in 55 years with 100s of reactors isn't exactly a high number.

Uh that's what makes it work, instability releases energy. That is high when you consider if you have a meltdown the land is fked for the next 1000+ years.

[Cold Fussion]

Uh that's what makes it work, instability releases energy. That is high when you consider if you have a meltdown the land is fked for the next 1000+ years.

The instability of the nucleous is what makes it radiate, splitting the atom is not the same thing. A nuclear reactor is stable as long as you are able to absorb the neutrons to prevent the china syndrome.

I think those Japanese are still laughing about those bombs
We were talking about exposition of nuclear radiation - no matter if it were bombs or power plants or some storage facility!
So stop making fun of me!

And yes, I do work for a company who owns more than one powerplant here in germany, and yes, I do have visited a nuclear powerplant several times, so I think I know what I am talking about here...

If you don't understand the difference between a run away chain-reaction and very controled fission event then i'd very much say you have no idea what you are talking about.

[Bodkin]

I'd hardly call nuclear fission unstable, 1 failure in 55 years with 100s of reactors isn't exactly a high number.

Three mile island, Windscale, K-19?

[GrossmeisterB]

I'd hardly call nuclear fission unstable, 1 failure in 55 years with 100s of reactors isn't exactly a high number.

There have been a lot more than ONE failure in 55 years!!!!
The one you are talking about is the biggest known failure in civilian usage...what about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
What about all the storage facilities in germany with leakages? There's a lot of radiation going into the ground and the atmosphere!
What about Sellafield 1957? Idaho 1961?

[Generic user #2]

what about Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

its not a failure it is MEANT to explode.

[GrossmeisterB]

its not a failure it is MEANT to explode.

It was the biggest failure ever made

[DeathReborn]

It was the biggest failure ever made

Definition of failure: an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose

They worked as intended to, so they cannot be a failure. Biggest failure ever made, Hindenburg ranks up there way above nuclear bombs/reactors. That is unless you're a eco-mentalist type.

Interesting choice for a codename though, if it's true. At least it's still able to stir up debate, even if it's hard to tie it down to a meaningful explanation for the choice.

[GrossmeisterB]

Definition of failure: an event that does not accomplish its intended purpose

They worked as intended to, so they cannot be a failure. Biggest failure ever made, Hindenburg ranks up there way above nuclear bombs/reactors. That is unless you're a eco-mentalist type.

Interesting choice for a codename though, if it's true. At least it's still able to stir up debate, even if it's hard to tie it down to a meaningful explanation for the choice.

In that moment, it worked as intended, but the failures have been made before - in developing such weapons of mass destruction - and the consequences who are still present to the people - 64 years later - and will be present for the next few thousand years!!

I don't blame nVidia for chosing the name, I was just commenting about the guy, who said there has been only one "failure" in using nuclear power - which is by far not true! The developing of nuclear bombs is one of the biggest mistakes ever made on earth! There has been, there are, and there will be a lot of conflicts concerning nuclear weapons.

Beside of the bombs, the usage of nuclear power to produce energy is a thing from the past, it's not safe at all, the storage of the used fuel assemblys is a very very big problem, not only for us, but for the next few thousand years...

And now you have to explain to me, what HINDENBURG has to do with nuclear bombs??