[equaviator]

How long before you can shop for desktop nuclear reactors for your home on QVC and HSN?

[wally_bert]

Harbor Freight too.

[miniTAX]

“How long before you can shop for desktop nuclear reactors for your home on QVC and HSN?”

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Not feasible with current physics. For fission to occur, you need to reach critical mass. For controlled fission (for electricity, not for bombs), you need to “dilute” the fissile material even more, which requires even bigger critical mass. You end up with a huge core, more container like than desktop like.

Desktop nuclear is possible with nuclear decay, not nuclear fission. It exists decades ago using plutonium or polonium and used in a wide range of applications, from space exploration to medical implants but it produces small amounts of energy with a cost of Wh probably x1000 times that of conventional electricity.