As an Energy Engineer who works in this field, I can say the practical development & implementation of this technology is not the biggest hurdle to overcome, we already use a form of it on board satellites we send to the outermost regions of the solar system where using solar cells to recharge on-board batteries are useless, instead we use fission technology to maintain stable power generation in those satellites. The biggest hurdle with adapting fission as "point of use" technology will be regulatory. Look at the politics involved in the implementation of "fracking technology" used in shale oil extraction, it is fraught more with politics than the science of developing it to make it environmentally practical for useful application. As fearful as some people are of "fracking", when the same ones hear the word "nuclear", this will so cower politicians that the technology may never be realized.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-02-nuclear-reactor-basement.html#jCp Mark Goldes Co-Founder, Chava Energy CEO, Aesop Institute www.chavaenergy.com www.aesopinstitute.org 707 861-9070 707 497-3551 fax
