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"What, you want I should buy this? A Real Power Reactor(?)

But how will I put it in my garage? I like the swimming pool idea better."

You might also take a look at UHTREX. It was (maybe still is) a high-temperature gas-cooled RX that was used in a Brayton cycle, replacing the gas turbine's combustor section. Interesting.

Looks like they did a fair amount of work on that back in the 60's. LANL appears to have had one running in '68. It does sound interesting, but a quick search didn't bring up much.

I don't know the safety hit on high temp gas cooled reactors. I thought that there were issues with them as far as gas containment etc. Do you have any comments on that, and why concepts like UHTREX and the General Atomics lines don't get very far? Or is it just ordinary anti-nuke hysteria?

The best nuclear technology hasnt even been built yet.

There is an actinide-destroying lead-bismuth-cooled reactor design out of Argonne national lab that would perform awesomely. Avoids problems of proliferation by having a sealed core, feeds a brayton cycle (use C02) turbine. could be heated up more that PWRs for efficiency, but also manages efficiency equal or better than the gas thermal reactors (like pebble-bed PBMR design). better burnup rates than any other technology too, depending on core material used. IMHO a winner ... on paper, which is all they've done so far.

A big tragedy that Clinton cut our nuclear research programs down to nothing, and we cant actually build the thing. It would make the nukes we built in the 1970s look like horse and buggy imho.