Local Power Plants Could Make Your Neighborhood Nuclear
December 2, 2008 · Print This Article
Yikes, nuclear neighborhoods might be coming to a street corner near you. According to Cleantechnica,
Scientists at the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb say nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power about 20,000 homes will be available within the next five years. The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, absent of any weapon-grade materials, and also have no moving parts.
Does this scare anybody else? Or as Jessica Williamson asks in this video, “who wants to try it first?”
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I think this is a brilliant idea. The federal government should use its ability to regulate interstate commerce to force states to produce more of their own power. Not that I really think nuclear power is such a great idea, but forcing people to think about power from a *local* perspective might give the NIMBYs fighting windmills out there a swift kick in the pants about conserving energy and where their energy comes from if a nuclear plant in their backyard was the alternative.