Former SpaceX Engineers Raise $1.2M and Launch Radiant, Which Is Developing the First Portable Zero-Emissions Power Source That Works Anywhere
Nuclear microreactors offer several important benefits: the energy is clean, the fuel lasts 4+ years, they can be easily refueled, and they work in areas with no sun or wind (even underground).
Radiant’s microreactor outputs over 1MW, enough to power about 1,000 homes continuously for up to eight years, while several microreactors could be used together to power an entire town or military base. The microreactor is designed to fit in a shipping container and can be easily transported by air, ship, and road.
They could use a simpler approach: nuclear batteries powering a Seebeck effect thermopile, just like what are used for spacecraft such as New Horizons and the Voyagers.
BAD – This list in Wikipedia clearly indicates that Russia and China are a way ahead of the pack in terms of constructing and operating SMRs globally. I think there are a number that are not on the list but the West is clearly playing catch up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_modular_reactor#Canada
Of course fission reactors have nuclear waste which is especially dangerous to snowflakes. The small modular fusion reactor being ready for a pilot at MIT (with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) company), now that the 20 Tesla magnet they needed has been tested and proven, is the antidote to that poison pill.
https://www.autoevolution.com/news/new-mti-magnet-for-fusion-power-breaks-magnetic-field-records-ramps-up-to-20-tesla-168961.html
https://news.mit.edu/2015/small-modular-efficient-fusion-plant-0810
Of course fission reactors have nuclear waste which is especially dangerous to snowflakes.
The problem of disposing of nuclear waste properly goes back to the days of the Manhattan Project.
They need good radiators; the sort that can be found in space.
Great idea; there are two or three companies ion the race. It will take more than $1.2M
And they can be made without using any fossil fuels, that is just how good they are. I am so tired of the idiocy.
I don’t think the ‘batteries’ used on the voyagers and so on scale well – really low wattage per unit. Also these are based on Plutonium in their current iterations, and one of the basic criteria is to avoid putting isotopes out there that could be leveraged by bad actors or could be a significant concern in a terror attack on the reactor.
What’s the stock symbol and where does it trade? Anyone know if it’s public?
Nope sorry, the decision has been made.
Just like the decision to not pursue actual solutions to, or treatments for, to the overhyped covid virus in favour of actions that cause more harm than the original problem, the decision to not pursue actual solutions to, or preparations for, the overhyped changing climate in favour of actions that will cause more harm than the original problem has been made, like it or not.
Pointing to actual solutions to our energy (small nukes) or health care needs (ivm, vitamins etc) betrays a lack of confidence in our commanders and must be quashed lest it affect their authority to carry out their plans.
That’s nice. Unfortunately, this is a solution to a problem that only exists in globalist and Chinese Communist propaganda.
The main threat to the survival of the human race is not “climate change.” It is globalism. The vast majority of the human race owes its existence to Western civilization. If it dies, so will they.
All parasites kill the host, then they die too.
Kinda like novel viruses …
Esp. when humans interfere with natural immunity. And when they fuck with CHILDREN’S natural immunity … they should be put on trial at Nuremberg… Right Creepy Joe?
Not at all. Parasites that know what they’re about don’t kill their hosts (at least not quickly).
Our masters aren’t even particularly good parasites.
They don’t need to be. We are such good hosts.
But the endstate of Western Civ is EXACTLY where we are now. This IS where it ends up. Trannies, fem-boys, menopausal women running everything, and forced drug experiments.
The world existed for thousands of years BEFORE the ridiculous criminal Anglosphere. It will flourish once the influence of the English has been thoroughly crushed once and for all.
Sorry, these are the facts. History is a bit if a bitch.
The best thing Уекатерина ever did for Russia was to smash the influence of menopausal aristocratic women in her court and government. They were the ones most pissed off at the reforms she brought in for the serfs.
She set Святии Россия up for 150 years of peace, growth, expansion of her lands and taxbase, and victories over Prussia, Turkey, Iran and the renegade Kingdom of Sweden.
It was the slow return of menopausal aristocratic women (and ultimately the introduction of their favourite monk) that critically weakened the Russian state, and left it badly exposed nationally and internationally, to the forces of chaos and tryanny.
Did you know the Czar Nicholas II refused to shut down socialist newspapers that regulalry published articles outlining the case for his execution and that of his family? He had become THAT open-minded and progressive…
Article is from Sept 2020. The link to the company that is in the article goes to a promo site that only has an email address for a contact.
It’s a great idea. But it may be no more than science fiction.
And no real details, although there is a pretty picture. Linked whitepaper material is a military study of the idea of portable nukes from 2018. And if you click on the networky lattice on the website it creates new nodes that then spread in an attractive techy way. So YAY! All our problems are solved !/sarc
I’d buy a nuclear generator.
Same here. You could drive around with the reactor in the back seat and plugged into your Chevy Volt and drive forever! I can’t imagine how further along nuclear power would be if it developed at the same pace that we’ve seen with the advances of the internal combustion engine over the last 50 years. I remember an elementary school science teacher telling our class how in the near future every home would have a nuclear reactor in the basement. It would provide electric heat, hot water, electrical power and a mini version of this reactor would be in every car. Safety would be provided by encasing the reactor in plain tap water. This was almost 50 years ago. Sadly most of the eco-kooks still think nuclear will make everything glow green.
In the words of some fake tv host in a movie called Robocop.
” I’LL buy that for a dollar !! “.
Quite right, Eskimo. That was the intent behind the Canadian development of the small fission pile Slowpoke developed by AECL starting in the late 1960s. It was to be a small reactor of a few hundred watt-hours capable of providing heat and electricity to a small city block. Naturally it was crushed by regulatory requirements. The reactors were only ever deployed as research reactors as neutron sources at half a dozen Canadian universities. The antinukes, fueled by the oil and gas industry, went ballistic after TMI in 1979. Never forget that the antinuclear industry was a deliberate creation of the oil and gas industry.
I was convinced that the main players were the communists, with the other groups being bit players
Communists? No, the antinuclear industry got its big start by millions of dollars in grants from Atlantic Richfield in the 1960s. It continues to get huge annual supports from a host of oil company trust funds such as the Rockefeller Foundation. The principal antinuclear organization in Ontario is the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, an organization supported financially by gas companies such as Enbridge.
The position of the oil and gas companies has been for the last half-century that nuclear constitutes an existential threat to their business. And they are right; nuclear power eliminated bunker oil as an electricity source by about 1990 on a global basis.
Please consider watching some or all of the videos by the Illinois Energy Professor. I’ve found them very interesting and informative and he seems like a straight-shooter (practical & realistic):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKH_iLhhkTyt8Dk4dmeCQ9w
Agreed. All his videos are very good.
“outputs over 1MW, enough to power about 1,000 homes …”
Same BS that the windmill folks use: 1MW divided by 1,000 homes gives you 1kW per home. That’s not even enough to boil a kettle, let alone run your washing, dishwasher, aircon, electric shower, etc. Maybe 1kW is the average load, but the lights go out when things aren’t average.
Not saying that mini-nukes are necessarily bad – just this claim is rubbish.
Small reactors have been used for decades in aircraft carriers and submarines, have they not? What’s different about this one?