Portable Nuke Reactors! Available Through Amazon! (someday?)

[M.D. Holloway]

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]

And go back in time!

[theFONZ]

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]

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]

Joe,
Redbeard has a great solution! Seriously.

[Nickshu]

1.21 gigawatts!

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Nickshu

1.21 gigawatts!

That only works in a DeLorean

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by theFONZ

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.

[Seahawk]

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.

[theFONZ]

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]

I'll take a Mr. Fusion.