Toshiba Builds Micro Nuclear Reactor - Power Apartment Complex, Malls, Etc
This could change everything. If found to be true.
Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks. The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change everything for small remote communities, small businesses or even a group of neighbors who are fed up with the power companies and want more control over their energy needs.
The 200 kilowatt Toshiba designed reactor is engineered to be fail-safe and totally automatic and will not overheat. Unlike traditional nuclear reactors the new micro reactor uses no control rods to initiate the reaction. The new revolutionary technology uses reservoirs of liquid lithium-6, an isotope that is effective at absorbing neutrons. The Lithium-6 reservoirs are connected to a vertical tube that fits into the reactor core. The whole whole process is self sustaining and can last for up to 40 years, producing electricity for only 5 cents per kilowatt hour, about half the cost of grid energy.
Toshiba expects to install the first reactor in Japan in 2008 and to begin marketing the new system in Europe and America in 2009.
Some thought this might be a hoax, but check out here and here.
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Mr. Fusion?
December 20th, 2007 at 4:16 pmThe Batman: “Does it come in black?”
December 20th, 2007 at 4:24 pmHmmmmm. Looking forward to a smaller version for individual home use… What a freakin hoot. Power company’s would go nuts.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:02 pmOK, that’s it. I’m not buying a Toshiba laptop ever again.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:23 pmIran invented it
December 20th, 2007 at 5:25 pmAnd nuclear power is the cleanest, greenest burning fuel in the world. How is it everyone else on the planet gets to exploit this techology to it’s fullest and we don’t? Oh that’s right, we got the Goracle, the tree-huggers, and the bug-fuckers to thank for that.
December 20th, 2007 at 7:20 pmOne or two of our space voyagers are powered with something similar. You know, the kind that are designed to leave our solar system. Late 80s, early 90s?
December 20th, 2007 at 9:17 pmHere’s a better idea: Focus Fusion.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:31 pmCheaper, cleaner, more powerful.
$0.05/kilowatt hour ? Our county electric co-op sells us natural gas generated electricity at $0.07/kilowatt hour, seems to me the micro nuclear electricity should be much cheaper than $0.05/kilowatt hour.
December 21st, 2007 at 7:43 amA remote city in Alaska plans to put one in. No joke.
In the sunbelt I don’t think it will be able to compete with Nanosolar. They have just developed a printable thin film solar panel that will cost around $0.02/kwh installed. Say goodye to oil. They have already sold out an entire years worth of production and are building a $100,000,000 plant in San Jose, CA.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:26 amSounds like a terrorists dream to me.
December 21st, 2007 at 9:31 am