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Mr. Fission?
William Henning - Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 | 12:05PM (PT)


A small nuclear reactor for everyone...

Mr. Fission? Image 1

20' wide and 6' long

Do you have the space for your own personal nuclear reactor?

If you do, Toshiba may be able to sell you one soon.

The Toshiba Micro Nuclear reactor produces 200kW for up to 40 years, at a cost of $0.05 per kWhr - which is about half of what most people pay per kWhr of electricity (or less) - if you crank the numbers, you will see that Toshiba hopes to sell them for about $3.5M, so Bill Gates can afford several.

 

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December 18th, 2007 1:04PM(PT)
bruceleethree
W...t...f...

lol!!!!

Being a Chernobyl survivor myself, the thought of this is creeping me out.
December 18th, 2007 1:20PM(PT)
tallteen86
Be a while before we get a proper, portable fission reactor...

But this is a step in the right direction >_>
December 18th, 2007 5:17PM(PT)
axforts2212
The government will definitely now allow people to have nuclear material at their disposal.
December 18th, 2007 5:49PM(PT)
iamjoe56
Bruce, I doubt you survived Chernobyl. I meant REALLY.
December 18th, 2007 9:05PM(PT)
duffbeer
What would you do with all the radioactive waste generated? That could be the most expensive part of the system.

The radioactive waste would likely have to be secured as well because terrorists could steal it and make a dirty nuke bomb.

Also, nuclear power plants last about 35 years on average. What do you do with the mess after 35 years?

Don't get me wrong. I think this could be a great idea. Looking forward to reading your answers.
December 19th, 2007 3:44AM(PT)
efg
I honestly don't think that a terrorist threat would occur due to unproperly disposed waste. It wouldn't be smart to offer something like this and then not have a proper way of disposing the stuff.

There is always the possibility somebody will do something stupid and more bad stuff occurs. So ummm yeah

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