Whatever your views on nukes for power, this really is a fascinating concept. The town of Galena has NO connection to the electrical grid, relying on diesel generators to get the lights on. If anyplace needed a small nuke, this is it.

Some of the technical specs for this project can be found here. http://www.roe.com/about_techGalena.htm

Whatever your views on nukes for power, this really is a fascinating concept. The town of Galena has NO connection to the electrical grid, relying on diesel generators to get the lights on. If anyplace needed a small nuke, this is it.

Some of the technical specs for this project can be found here. http://www.roe.com/about_techGalena.htm

As for the concern about riding around with batteries in electric cars…could you imagine the uproar that would occur in today's world filled with enviro lemmings and outright luddites if you proposed driving around cars powered by gasoline? A volatile organic compound with a flash point of -40º and the energy content of 83# of dynamite per gallon?

Nor would a small reactor like this have enough mass to achieve a runaway reaction that could cause a “meltdown.”

Movie induced fears about a China Syndrome scenario are best left, along with lime green fire apparatus, to the 1970s.

Will this be a boone or a bane? Who knows… but it's probably coming