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Subject: Re: Microreactors
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 21:46:07 +0100
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On Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:04:53 -0500
JAB <here@is.invalid> wrote:

> Nuclear reactors smaller than a semi truck to be tested in Idaho
> 
> Forget small modular reactors. Microreactors are the new hotness
> 
> Earlier this month, the DoE conditionally selected Westinghouse's
> trailer-sized eVinci test reactor and Radiant's Kaleidos unit to
> conduct the first fueled microreactor experiments at its Demonstration
> of Microreactor Experiments (DOME) facility at Idaho National
> Laboratory.
> 
> These experimental units are really, really small compared to other
> reactors, with self-contained designs from both companies no larger
> than a semi-truck trailer. The DOME project considers anything under
> 50 MW of power to be a microreactor; the eVinci is designed to only
> produce 5 megawatts, and the Kaleidos is limited to just 1.2 megawatts
> of electrical power output. 
> 
> For perspective, the average US home only consumes around 30 kWh of
> electricity per day - so even 1.2 MW is enough for a lot of homes. 


That's handy. But do the trash collectors take spent Uranium?
(I already presume Walmart etc will have some fuel packs near the checkout)

> 
> https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/trailer_sized_microreactors
> 



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