Toshiba creates home Nuclear power plant

Who needs Three Mile Island or Chernobyl when you can have dozens, if not hundreds of mini meltdowns in your very own neighborhood? That may be a nightmare scenario which has little basis in fact, but that’s the stigma that Toshiba will have to combat if it wants to see its 200 kilowatt micro nuclear reactor take off. The mini reactor measures 20 feet by 6 feet and is designed to be “fail-safe, totally automatic and will not overheat.” The reactor will have an energy production half life of 20 years and has the promise to make cheap electricity for around a nickel per kilowatt hour.”

Sadly, though, even if the engineering is solid and the estimates accurate, facts are seldom in line with fears. Anti nuclear forces choose to ignore the nearly 5 decades of safe nuclear operations of US, British and Russian navies all over the world, plus the safe operations of nuclear plants in the U.S. and Europe. Instead, they choose to focus on the dramatic “China syndrome” scenarios brought about by two nuclear plants that failed. As such, there hasn’t been a nuclear power plant built in the U.S. in almost forty years.

But that isn’t stopping Toshiba from plans to them in Japan next year (you gotta love the irony), with the hope is to have these home reactors in the US by 2009.

Besides, with the glow, we won’t need to replace our lightbulbs!

Source: DVice (Scifi)

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6 Comments on “Toshiba creates home Nuclear power plant”

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[...] Toshiba creates home Nuclear power plant [...]

MIchael Brannaka Says:

That nuclear power plant for home owner is stupid; very bad idea.

MIchael Brannaka Says:

what do you with nuclear wast? & what if this go to wrong hand; it chould build nuclear warhead or nuclear bomb.

C.R. Says:

Those so called nearly five decades of “safe” nuclear reactor operations were not so safe, if the author of this article had done his research he would have known that there have been many, many accidents and close calls. And loss of life in some of the accidents. In addition there is a regular release of radioactive gas that builds up and it has been known and published that there is a much higher incidence of cancers and other diseases nearby and down wind from nuclear reactors. But you don’t need to believe me, consult the noted and mainstream Nuclear physicist Michio Kaku.

Rocket Says:

Well all those comments, if true, makes it better. The less people we have the better. More for us..

Jake Parker Says:

Well it appears every single person who has posted on this page thus far (especially the author) is a complete and total moron. It just so happens that the Toshiba power plant is not designed in any way that is even close to those that were designed 30 years ago (which have a chance to meltdown). If all you hippies would pull your pipes out of your asses and research (or even think) before you speak, you’d know that 1) There is no possible way to build a nuclear warhead from nuclear waste. 2) It is a physical IMPOSSIBILITY for the Toshiba design to meltdown, it will simply shut off. 3) The material (small pellets which can be safely handled with a naked hand) in said Toshiba plant are 100% recyclable, and therefore yield no waste. Why don’t you all grow up.

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