November 26, 2007

Mini Nukes could power towns

In this day an age, you would have thought that the idea of a mini nuclear reactor that could be built, encased in a block of concrete, transported to the site, where it will be buried in the ground and will be able to provided enough power for a 25,000 homes for at least five years, would not be a great idea, but this is not science fiction.

This is the idea of Hyperion who have developed such a plant for the Los Alamos National Laboratory and then to take this public.

The plan is that this will be developed and then a plant will be built in New Mexico by 2012, where they will begin the production of 4,000 of these generators. Can this be the solution to the world’s power problems?

Source [SF Reporter]