[NukeNet] FW: Toshiba Builds "Individual" Nuclear Reactor

[Mark Haim]

MessageHello friends,

I'm new to this list and don't know if this has been posted here already. If
so, I apologize for the redundancy. Anyway, should any of us need a wake-up
call, this is how insane things can get. Time to get active, I think.

All the best,
Mark Haim

Mark Haim
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Toshiba Builds 100x Smaller Micro Nuclear Reactor
http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-1
2.17b.html

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.

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