Pure, unadulterated horsefeathers. I've been hearing about this
pseudo-scientific futurama crap for more than 40 years, and I don't
expect anything to come of it for the next 40 (or 400 for that
matter) years.
The only technology that MIGHT be real here is thermocouple pile
generators, and what are you gonna do with all that heat when there
is no draw? Boil the thorium off? That's what's in satellite
nuclear generators, at teast the ones that don't contain pure
plutonium....
Peter
On Nov 8, 2008, at 9:04 PM, harry watkins wrote:
This was on Drudge tonight and the whole article can be gotten
there. $250 is one months power bill for me, HEY, sign me up.
Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power
20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at
Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first
atomic bomb.
The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-
grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible
to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried
underground.
The US government has licensed the technology to Hyperion, a New
Mexico-based company which said last week that it has taken its
first firm orders and plans to start mass production within five
years. 'Our goal is to generate electricity for 10 cents a watt
anywhere in the world,' said John Deal, chief executive of
Hyperion. 'They will cost approximately $25m [£13m] each. For a
community with 10,000 households, that is a very affordable $250
per home.'
Deal claims to have more than 100 firm orders, largely from the oil
and electricity industries, but says the company is also targeting
developing countries and isolated communities. 'It's leapfrog
technology,' he said.
The company plans to set up three factories to produce 4,000 plants
between 2013 and 2023. 'We already have a pipeline for 100
reactors, and we are taking our time to tool up to mass-produce
this reactor.'
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