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Alright, details are slim, and we really have no concept whether Toshiba has any plans whatsoever to sell these nuclear reactors to consumers — in fact, we hope it doesn’t — but it does seem like the company is well on its way to commercializing the design. Toshiba’s Micro Nuclear reactors are designed to ability a individual apartment building or city block, and measure a mere 20-feet by 6-feet. The 200 kilowatt reactor is fully motorized and fail-safe, and is completely self-sustaining. It uses special liquid lithium-6 reservoirs instead of traditional control rods, and can

last up to 40 years, making energy for about 5 cents per kilowatt hour. Toshiba has been examining the reactors since 2005, and hopes to install its first reactor in Japan in 2008, with marketing to Europe and America in 2009. Oh, and we lied: we totally want one of these in our carport.

[Via Dvorak Uncensored]

Read - Next Energy News
Read - Roland’s Tech Trends (2005)

 

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