This has been around a long time and foolishly reviled a long time. The latest startup Radiant, is by former SpaceX engineers. Microreactors with 1 mw output, zero emissions. Apparently they have two new patents, one for improved heat extraction from the core and one for improved re-fueling.
"Small Nuclear Power Reactors" have been around. (The review is dated 2021) Some are modular, allowing plants to be built Lego-style. Some are like the Radiant startup. Small generally means 15 to 300 megawatts. Radiant is redefining small to mean 1 megawatt. The bigger "small" ones are the right size to pop into existing de-comissioned coal plant properties. The illustration was photoshopped on purpose to show what the NuScale Power module would look like in a story carried bythe CBC in Canada.
Have you thought about this lately?
A container-sized reactor is anti-fragile while delivering reliable power in all weathers. A network of them won't be wrecked by EMP explosions whether from space or dirty bombs. There's no smoke. There's no smell. No streams are filled with guck. Birds aren't killed when they fly past. There are no cross-country powerlines serving these communities and no tanker trucks. I think it increases freedom and autonomy for those communities.
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