Re: [Vo]:Hyperion Takes First Orders

2008-11-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Terry Blanton wrote: Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes £13m shed-size reactors will be delivered by lorry 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

Re: [Vo]:Hyperion Takes First Orders

2008-11-09 Thread Edmund Storms
On Nov 9, 2008, at 12:50 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote: Terry Blanton wrote: Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes £13m shed-size reactors will be delivered by lorry Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists

Re: [Vo]:Hyperion Takes First Orders

2008-11-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
Edmund Storms wrote: My reservations are not about making and using small reactors but the design and promise made by the Hyperion Company. . . . The problem is with a promise that the reactor requires no attention and can be scattered over the countryside as local heat sources. Too much