Toshiba To Market Micro Nuclear Reactor For Towns, Businesses, Even A Few Neighbors Who Want To Grow Their Own

Neat. And scary. But mostly scary.

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 blah blah blah blahbety blah. 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.

Instapundit 2009:

IN THE MAIL: a nuclear fucking reactor. Oh, and The Dangerous Book For Dogs.

Thanks to Roland, who may or may not be headless and may or may not be a machine-gunner.

posted by Ace at 06:42 PM

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