The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere

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Earlier this month, the DOE announced a conditional agreement made with private firms Westinghouse and Radiant to conduct the first reactor tests at its Demonstration on Microreactor Experiment (DOME) facility, located at Idaho National Laboratory.

These experiments, featuring two trailer-sized microreactors, will be “the first of their kind in the world” ...

The U.S. Is Testing Tiny Nuclear Reactors That Can Go Practically Anywhere

Compact, energy-efficient microreactors could soon help generate electricity for remote locations.

gizmodo.com

Trailer sized, eh? Timothy McVeigh approved.

 

[nickndfl]

There is a butt joke here somewhere?

 

[Viking]

I already got one.

 

[Goldhedge]

Maybe Ai can monitor and control them to keep them from going BOOM?

They would be handy in a NC, TX, NM flood situation...

 

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[Vichris]

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I've advocated for this for decades. During my time in the Navy I lived with a large number of nuclear power plants (submarines) surrounding me at all times. I've always thought that if we had The Army Corp Of Engineers building and operating Dams and Hydroelectric power plants why don't we have the Navy Corp Of Engineers running small Nuclear power plants all over the country. The Navy has a large number of trained nuke qualified engineers running them now and doing it safely for decades. This^^^ is a great idea. Fuck these solar & wind farms.


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[Vichris]

Maybe Ai can monitor and control them to keep them from going BOOM?

They would be handy in a NC, TX, NM flood situation...

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Well AI would help, but the NAVY has thousand of well trained engineers running nuclear power plants right now. They've done it safely for decades


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[nickndfl]

Can they make them as small as a gold watch?

 

[Vichris]

Can they make them as small as a gold watch?

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Nope,......but there's really no real demand for that


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[pmbug]

Nope,......but there's really no real demand for that

I mean, who doesn't want a nuclear powered sex robot?

 

[Viking]

I mean, who doesn't want a nuclear powered sex robot?

Casey. He's a luddite.

 

[Goldhedge]

I wonder if it's anything like the Russian nuclear powered missile that flew around the Earth for a day?

 

[Joe King]

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Nope,......but there's really no real demand for that


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There would be if everyone could have one in their backyard powering their home for 50 years.

 

[Casey Jones]

Maybe Ai can monitor and control them to keep them from going BOOM?

They would be handy in a NC, TX, NM flood situation...

That...is the problem.

While we're dumbing-down the population, AND imposing the Grate Replacement...favoring 70-IQ Haitians over average Caucasian Americans...we're gonna increase the complexity of systems in general?

A hundred years ago, a Model T was simple enough to fix with a monkey wrench and a hammer. And owners were smart enough to use those tools - in fact, smart enough to make a lot of improvements on the Model T and later cars. Occasionally even factories adopted those field improvements.

Now we have drivers named NO NAME GIVEN, driving Peterbilts with computer-controlled engines and airbags...right into vans filled with families. And those Model T owners' great-granddaughters, now middle-aged, protest and provoke LE when they try to REMOVE these illegally-imported chattel.

These are people who, seeing their car has a flat tire, will try to drive it 20 miles to the dealer for them to fix! We're gonna entrust them to handle mini-reactors, or even be in close proximity?

Small enough to trailer, hey? That probably means an envisioned use would be to trailer them out to a site. While the Instantly-American durka-durkas are out there turning our highways into killing fields?

I don't think this is a good idea. I wish it were not so; but I can't help but be realistic.