The world relies too heavily on coal and oil for energy. This has been expertly pointed out a handful of times in recent years. The remaining problem is always a question of what to rely on as the oil crisis becomes, increasingly, the energy crisis.
One hypothetical answer has come from the Cold War, as if to say: "We worked so hard on these smaller reactors for submarines, why not make them even smaller and then just put one in every home?" Well, the figures are a little more realistic than that, stating that one mini-reactor could power 300,000 homes.
Ok, so, how "mini"?
Perhaps these little reactors that power three hundred thousand homes aren't so bad. About the size of a bus? No problem.
It will certainly take a burden off the workers in the country side who are erecting these eyesoress:
If you're not worried about the visual, you can't be blamed. It is stunning.
But the last word is in the direction beauty or even feasibility, as it seems likely that tiny reactors are a real possibility. The tonnage of spent fuel rods that are produced by becoming nuclear energy dependent would increase into proportions that our descendants will lament until they figure out how to turn radioactive waste into furniture.
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