Toshiba's Home Nuclear Reactor

hooroo · Jan 9, 2008

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news-toshiba-micro-nuclear-12.17b.html

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.
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thelasik · Jan 9, 2008

I guess they can lean on this now that HD-DVD is pretty much dead.

meggoleggo · Jan 9, 2008

My dad used to work for Toshiba - but he sure as hell didn't ever work on anything like this! Holy schnauzers!!!!

tulexan · Jan 9, 2008

Sony's Micro Nuclear Reactor is so much better.

MR. MEOWGI · Jan 9, 2008

Mr. Fusion?

OldManBernie · Jan 9, 2008

The part about the reactor being marketed in 2008 is a hoax.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba_Micro_Nuclear_Reactor

However, the 4S generator sounds like a pretty promising technology.

hotballa · Jan 9, 2008

tulexan said:

Sony's Micro Nuclear Reactor is so much better.
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plus it could probbaly hold double the amount of plutonium due to its specia blue diodes...oh wait...

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