Toshiba Pushes Safe, Small Nuclear Reactor Design

core plexus writes "This article describes a proposal from a Japanese corporation that wants to thrust the Interior Alaska community of Galena into international limelight by donating a new, unconventional electricity-generating plant that would light and heat the Yukon River village pollution-free for 30 years. There's a catch, of course. It's a nuclear reactor. Not a huge, Three Mile Island-type power plant but a new generation of small nuclear reactor about the size of a big spruce tree. Designers say the technology is safe, simple and cheap enough to replace diesel-fired generators as the primary energy source for villages across rural Alaska."

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Re:Well, this is a good place to start

[ewhac]

While the Japanese nuclear "industry" is one of the worst in the world in terms of safety, it's impressive that reactors are this small, [ ... ]

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Schwab

Um...

[Greyfox]

I googled for "bomb neutron deflector"... should I just ignore the black helecopters that just landed outside my house?