[NukeNet] Toshiba Builds 100x Smaller Micro Nuclear Reactor

[Chris Williams]

Do these units require an operator nearby or are they the set it and forget it type of fission reactors?
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  From: Dave Kraft 
  To: Mike Ewall 
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  Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 1:42 PM
  Subject: Re: [NukeNet] Toshiba Builds 100x Smaller Micro Nuclear Reactor


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  Well, just in time for the holidays.  I know what I will ask Santa for. (a high-level radioactive waste dump maybe??)
  But can it withstand the crash of today's commercial aircraft, the NRC is asking (not).
  Seriously, Japan -- one of seismic capitals of the world -- seems like a poor place to market these.  I would think disaster relief to high population density  earthquake sites would be complicated enough without adding a radioactive burden to the mess to deal with.  I wonder what the fuel used is; the waste products; etc.  Who does the refueling and how after 40 years.  Whence and wither the wastes.

  I know, I am such a cynic.  A glass half-broken person by nature.
  Bah, humbug I say!
  --Dave Kraft--

  Mike Ewall wrote:

NukeNet Anti-Nuclear Network (nukenet at energyjustice.net)


Oh boy... neighborhood nukes...


December 17, 2007

Toshiba Builds 100x Smaller Micro Nuclear Reactor

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.


Mike Ewall
Energy Justice Network
215-743-4884
catalyst at actionpa.org
http://www.energyjustice.net


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