Why 'nuclear batteries' offer a new approach to carbon-free energy

https://techxplore.com ^ | 25 JUNE 2021 | by David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

[fightin kentuckian]

Thanks for that.

[ChildOfThe60s]

All life on earth is carbon based.

Is there anything the left pushes that isn’t a hoax?

[rightwingcrazy]

“nuclear power”

Quantum alchemy. Sells better.

[PapaBear3625]

The military needs something like this I f they carry through with plans for electric vehicles.

In places like Afghanistan, where it's very expensive to get gasoline supplies out into the middle of nowhere, a base could have one of these to recharge electric vehicles and drone aircraft.

[ShadowAce]

[Bikkuri]

Not sure how I would fit that in my phone.. 🤭

[NonValueAdded]

How big a city/town will 10 megawatts support?

From the referenced paper:

A single 10 MW NB can power some 7000–8000 homes, a large shopping mall, or a midsize data center, or produce enough desalinated fresh water for over 150,000 people.

Bitcoin miners take note.

[usconservative]

Geez, and here I thought driving a Ford Pinto to college every day was dangerous. Just think, one rear-end collision in a nuclear battery-powered car results in a mini-Chernobyl.

(Does this post really need a /humor tag?)

[mbj]

...you didn’t read the fine article, my FRiend! ;-)

It isn’t really a true battery at all, it is a tiny, tiny nuclear powered electrical generator: one that fits into the size of a regular shipping/truck container.

From the article:

“This nuclear battery concept is really a different thing because of the physical scale of these machines—about 10 megawatts. It’s so small that the whole POWER PLANT is actually built in a factory and fits within a standard container. The idea is to fit the whole power plant, which comprises a microreactor and a turbine that converts the heat to electricity, into the container.”

(emphasis uppercase added)

[mbj]

+1 (Informative)

[mbj]

:-D

Appreciated!

[SunkenCiv]

The same jokers who protested new nuclear plant construction support the anti-carbon agenda. Both agendas were, are, and always will be phony. And if they're told to, the same stooges will swing back into anti-nuke battery mode.

That's merely the political side of it of course. Sounds like the Chinese have made another breakthrough and the PR campaign has already started. :^)

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