[marktwain]

Who would want one of these in their neighborhood?

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I would! Cheap reliable power. If the Chinese shut down the grid, the neighborhood would still have cheap, reliable power, without the need for a pile of coal or a natural gas pipeline.

The measure of a civilization is how much power it can produce per person.

[dagunk]

The measure of a civilization is how much power it can produce per person.

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Indoor Plumbing.
Worked a job out in the middle of nowhere with porta-potties and bring water in 5-gallon jugs. Did it for 39 years. (Best job I ever had.)

So, Trust Me - “Indoor plumbing is Civilizations finest product”.

I can go with power is second.

[fidelis]

You should probably reread my post. The safety and reliability of these nuclear power sources has not really been tested on a long term, real world basis.

A nuclear meltdown or incident involving nuclear material, even a small one, is always a real danger. At a place I once worked, there was a small experimental nuclear reactor that had a meltdown. As a result, radioactive fallout was spread through the air and through groundwater to contaminate a large surrounding area. The cases of cancer in the surrounding community is abnormally high, and a lot of former employees came up with an inordinate number of cases of a particular type of leukemia. It's not something to take lightly.