Hyperion Power Modules has announced that they have received their first customer for 6 of what the company describes as “a small, compact, transportable, nuclear power reactor”. Can I get fries with that?) Each module can supply enough heat to produce about 25 MW of electricity when connected to an efficient steam turbine cycle. Just about enough for a large town or small city. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission currently reviewing their manufacturing license with scheduled manufacturing planed to begin in 2012 and a projected completion sometime in 2015. Sure to be a hit with the neighbors, a single truck can deliver the HPM heat source to a site and the reactor is supposed to be able to produce 70 MW of thermal energy for 5 years. Now if I could get one of these in my car…More here
