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M.D. Holloway 01-14-2017 10:11 AM

Portable Nuke Reactors! Available Through Amazon! (someday?)
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/4662109b-90ce-3179-a29a-9b4e192ffa4d/miniaturized-nuclear-power.html

I can see the advantage and danger of one of these things but how cool would it be to make this to the size where it could be dropped into the back of a 911 midyear!

billybek 01-14-2017 10:17 AM

And go back in time!

theFONZ 01-14-2017 12:50 PM

We have had portable "nuclear generators" for about 60 years or so. Even put some in pacemaker implants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

Joeaksa 01-14-2017 02:38 PM

Would love to have one! Friend of mine and I have some property out in the middle of no-where and its off the grid, so having steady clean power would be great.

M.D. Holloway 01-14-2017 04:14 PM

Joe,
Redbeard has a great solution! Seriously.

Nickshu 01-14-2017 05:44 PM

1.21 gigawatts!

Por_sha911 01-14-2017 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nickshu (Post 9433168)
1.21 gigawatts!

That only works in a DeLorean

sc_rufctr 01-15-2017 12:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theFONZ (Post 9432880)
We have had portable "nuclear generators" for about 60 years or so. Even put some in pacemaker implants.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

Older tech & extremely inefficient but there are some still in use.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1484467634.jpg

Seahawk 01-15-2017 07:24 AM

Mike...my Dad was involved with this project in the late ''50's, early 60's. The project was classified for a long time. First I heard of it was last week. My father was a nuke physicist and was apparently doing some of the reactor work. I wonder if Hugh's Dad was involved!

Interesting.

Mysterious, ice-buried Cold War military base may be unearthed by climate change | Science | AAAS

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/27/receding-icecap-top-secret-us-nuclear-project-greenland-camp-century-project-iceworm

It sounds like something out of a James Bond movie: a secret military operation hidden beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet. But that’s exactly what transpired at Camp Century during the Cold War.

In 1959, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the subterranean city under the guise of conducting polar research—and scientists there did drill the first ice core ever used to study climate. But deep inside the frozen tunnels, the corps also explored the feasibility of Project Iceworm, a plan to store and launch hundreds of ballistic missiles from inside the ice.

The military ultimately rejected the project, and the corps abandoned Camp Century in 1967. Engineers anticipated that the ice—already a dozen meters thick—would continue to accumulate in northwestern Greenland, permanently entombing what they left behind.


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theFONZ 01-15-2017 02:22 PM

I watched a documentary on the Greenland base a while back. I don't remember where I saw it, but it looks like it's on YouTube. Pretty interesting.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ujx_pND9wg

Nostril Cheese 01-15-2017 04:57 PM

I'll take a Mr. Fusion.


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