[Red Badger]

Pingy!...................

[rfp1234]

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

The marxist echo chamber will scream. Note who they are.

[ClearCase_guy]

I imagine I’m mixing electrical concepts, but IIRC Thomas Edison wanted enormous batteries on every city block — that’s how you get that all-important DC power into people’s homes.

George Westinghouse (and Tesla) instead proposed the idea of Power Stations and long transmission lines to deliver AC power to people.

But I guess we’re back to big batteries.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"It's intrinsically safe. It's so safe we can put it in your neighborhood."

"The next step will be to build a pilot plant at one of the national laboratories that has extensive equipment for testing nuclear reactor systems, such as the Idaho National Laboratory. They have a number of facilities that are being modified to accommodate these microreactors, and they have extra layers of safety.

It's so safe they need extra layers of safety to test it.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Cool...it's a long wheelbase Fat Man design!

[minnesota_bound]

Everything uses carbon.

[Flick Lives]

[bgill]

Fukushima, 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl.

[PapaBear3625]

I can see them on military bases and other secure facilities.

I don’t see them in any place where they could be vulnerable to sabotage.

[KarlInOhio]

Atomic batteries to power. Turbines to speed.

[Dead Corpse]

A bit big to fit in my flashlight... But it’s a start.

[Nateman]

...And as for security, at most sites, we envision that these would be located below grade.

Below ground? Just what element is this thing using anyway?

[marktwain]

I do not think you can stop this.

Perfect for the developing word. Perfect for remote locations.

Even if the US says “no way” lots of places where this could be tremendously beneficial.

[fightin kentuckian]

Overall I really like the idea and concept. But I do have a couple of questions. How big a city/town will 10 megawats support? Is the price per megawat the same as with a big traditional reactor?

If the price is the same or less, that’s even better.

[Parmy]

If there’s no carbon, what will the trees eat?

[teeman8r]

so, a lot more little nuclear things to go wrong is better than a few larger nuclear things to go wrong.

thanks MIT.

[PerConPat]

It also has a very robust containment structure surrounding it to protect against any release of radiation.

Just wondering what "radiation" they are referring to... Ionizing and/or fission product release-contamination?

[rightwingcrazy]

“nuclear power”

Quantum alchemy. Sells better.

[ShadowAce]