The writers for the show weren’t too concerned with scientific accuracy. It’s intentionally silly.

I live in fear that someone in my house will connect the tv to the WiFi and an update will just absolutely fuck it up.

Same here and it’s worked well. I migrated my arr stack from another machine where it was in docker and just couldn’t see a reason to spend a bunch of time rebuilding it with LXCs.

To be fair, nuclear power is cool as fuck and would reduce the carbon footprint of all sorts of bullshit.