[Freedom4US]

What are some practical design limits for scale size? I always figured that every home by the late 50s should have had one - made by Heathkit, that would provide a welcome heat source for steam boiler and electricity generation. Every 20 years or so, you send in some boxtops and they would send out some new rods or something.

[ApplegateRanch]

always figured that every home by the late 50s should have had one - made by Heathkit, that would provide a welcome heat source for steam boiler and electricity generation.

I was holding out for the 1975 basement mass-energy converter unit.

Dump the trash can into the hopper on trash day, and have power the rest of the week.

[rednesss]

I know that Toshiba is building a container sized reactor.

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/12/toshibas-home-n.html