[DeTomaso] Absolutely no Pantera content but interesting

[JDeRyke at aol.com]

A new company is now building small 15-ton nuclear reactors, roughly the 
size of a big hot-tub, to power rural communities, islands and other places 
who want to be off the grid, or were never on it. Right now, they cost $25 
million each, run totally automatic (the company envisions burying them 10 ft 
or so in the ground) for 5 yrs before needing 'service', and each provides 
around 25 megawatts of power- enough for around 20,000 U.S homes. The fuel has 
absolutely no weapons potential and the unit cannot melt down. There is no 
waste radiation and spent fuel-waste is the size of a football & can be 
easliy re-processed. The company claims to have 100 firm orders and is not 
associated with the U.S government, so the idea might actually work. But I can't 
figure any way of getting one in anything smaller than an 18-wheeler.... 
maybe the nuclear-electric sports car will be in my lifetime? 

Google's conspiracy theorists are polishing their arguments; the best one 
says this is disruptive technology.... exactly what buggy-whip manufacturers 
said about gasoline as a motor fuel.

The announcement about 6 months ago got zero play from most of the media 
who were busy 'making' news instead of reporting it, except for Fox News. 
<http://nextbigfuture.com/2008/11/update-on-hyperion-power-generation.html>
FWIW- J Deryke, chief pot-stirrer


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