The Facility

I have been working with the Clean Futures Fund for a while now and one of the best parts of the year for me is receiving ‘pupdates’ about the wild dogs of Chernobyl, the cute furry friends roaming the 1,000 sq mile exclusion zone. Recently, images and rumors have been circulating the internet that the radioactive area is now turning these dogs blue.

A new book by long-time AI researchers Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argues that superintelligence must stop. Now. It’s a conclusion that they didn’t want to come to, but the stakes are just too high.This is an essay in support of their argument against artificial superintelligence, the reasons why “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.”

I see Demon Core memes almost every single day. But recently, they’ve evolved into something new: Demon Core WEAPONS. As the self proclaimed CEO of Demon Core memes, I decided to take a look and rank what could truly be the Internet’s worst nuclear weapons ideas ever to see if they’re designed correctly, and explain how they would really work. If the Demon Core is already in the zeitgeist, the least we can do is explain it properly.

AI data centers are consuming enormous amounts of power and cooling. Now, some billionaires have proposed a bold solution: move them to space! They cite“free” solar energy and cosmic cooling. But when you actually run the numbers, the idea collapses under basic physics. Noted fake physicist Kyle Hill explains why the problem isn’t ambition, but a lack of understanding.

Once again, the Fallout TV show introduces a piece of technology with planet-destroying potential, this time a mysterious “cold fusion diode” in the Season 2 finale. Mr. House claims that if the device expelled all of its energy at once, the damage could extend to other planets. But does that make any scientific sense? Well, no. It’s finale time (see what I did there) to explain what nuclear fusion actually is, why fusion reactors are considered inherently safe, and why shooting a miniaturized fusion core wouldn’t cause a solar system-ending explosion. Sorry Mr. House, but science always wins.

On September 30, 1999, the Tokaimura nuclear accident became the worst criticality accident in modern nuclear history. At a uranium processing facility in Japan, workers accidentally triggered a self-sustaining nuclear reaction while preparing fuel for an experimental reactor. One of the technicians, Hisashi Ouchi, received a massive radiation dose and spent 83 days in intensive medical care before his death. Over time, his story spread across the internet with misleading claims about what really happened. This [HALF-LIFE HISTORY] is the true story.

Nuclear fusion is potentially the last energy technology humanity will ever need. So why don’t we have it yet? Despite major breakthroughs, fusion reactors still face enormous engineering challenges. From extreme temperatures to neutron radiation and material limitations, building a working fusion power plant may be the single hardest problem humans have ever tackled. So is fusion really just “10 years away”? Noted Dude-terium Kyle Hill explains.

Nuclear “recycling” is often presented as the solution to nuclear waste, but can it actually be done safely and practically? Nuclear reprocessing is far more complicated than people think. From how nuclear fuel works, to what gets left over after a reprocessing attempt, to the economic and security challenges of reprocessing this material, noted dry cask-kisser Kyle Hill explains.

On October 10th, 1957, a nuclear reactor fire broke out at Windscale in the UK becoming the first nuclear disaster to directly impact the public. Long before Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and the Chernobyl disaster, This [HALF-LIFE HISTORY] is the true story of the Windscale nuclear fire, the attempted government cover-up and the legacy it created.

If you know one thing about atoms, it’s probably that they’re “mostly empty space.” but that’s not really true. It’s a myth based on a lack of understanding. Maybe your high school science teacher didn’t understand quantum mechanics (what a loser) but noted physicist Zaddy Kyle Hill is here to bring your understanding of atomic structure and quantum mechanics into the 21st century and to finally explain why you can’t walk through walls.

On February 14th, 2025, a large drone struck the side of the New Safe Confinement, the megastructure that was designed to contain and eventually decommission the exploded Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The damage was worse than anyone realized. In collaboration with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, this video brings you the first damage report on the NSC, never-before-seen footage of the damage from the drone strike, and a call for help.

NASA just announced a crazy new mission with an incredibly ambitious schedule: the agency wants to fly the first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft to Mars in late 2028. It’s called Space Reactor-1 Freedom. How are they going to pull it off? How does a nuclear spacecraft work? Noted space enjoyer (personal) Dr.*Kyle Hill explains.

A.I generated SLOP channels are slowly infecting the Science side of YouTube, it’s disturbing and it’s a huge problem. These channels churn out multiple videos per day impersonating the greatest and most famous scientists, mathematicians, philosophers and intelligent minds of all time, often producing content full of misinformation in an attempt not to educate but to farm views and make money.

This is probably the biggest thing to happen to the American nuclear industry in our lifetimes. Linear No-Threshold (LNT) and ALARA are being functionally discarded as the scientific basis of nuclear regulatory policy. If you don’t know what that is or why it’s important, don’t worry, we’re going to explain it all, step-by-step.

The latest reason to oppose A.I. isn’t artistic or economic; it’s physical. The robots are coming for our water, billions of liters of it, and that number is only going to increase. But are data centers really poisonous water guzzlers, on track to drink up both jobs and H2O? Or is their water usage a distraction from what we should really worry about? It’s complicated. Dr.*Kyle Hill explains.

Terraforming Mars into a second Earth has been a sci-fi dream for almost 100 years now. Billionaires like Elon Musk still talk about doing it today. But is it actually feasible? Has it ever been? Noted space boy Dr.*Kyle Hill takes us through a new study from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab that puts hard numbers to the problem.