A Hyperion seems cheap enough at the price per kilowatt, but does that include the cost of installing one of the critters?
Not just the China Syndrome (1979)
Not just TMI (1979)
ot the horrors of Chernobyl
But books
The Prometheus Crisis by Frank M Robinson and Thomas N Scortia —
Switching dramatically between post-disaster government hearings and the events leading up to it, this fictionalized scenario set at “the world’s largest nuclear plant in California” has an exceptional sense of pacing, drawing the reader into a tense technological page-turner not unlike Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain (1971). The Prometheus Crisis predates Three Mile Island by four years, and Chernobyl by eleven, and presciently foretells the tangled bureaucratic nightmare that occured along with the public panic in the real world of TMI and Chernobyl.
And other popular “Green” publications. So long as there is a vocal greeine sub-culture with greedy lawers at hand, nuke power is a non-starter.
Hell, we cannot even get a simple 40 sq mile coal strip mine opened up here...
Imagine what a 25 Megawatt Hyperion reactor plant would do for a country like Haiti. A clean and relatively cheap power source like the nation has never had before.
I read some time ago that Northrop Grumman was going to be building a facility in Newport News Virginia to start making smaller commercial reactor vessels; not sure if they are Hyperions or not, but it seems the trend for nuclear power is smaller, not larger. Makes sense to me...
I might be a little more ‘green’ than most conservatives, but I love nuclear power. And the Hyperion looks AWESOME. Just the ticket to get more nuclear on line in the shortest amount of time.
There seems to be almost no technical information about the reactor design on their website, and nothing on Google, either. As a licensed reactor operator, I’m very leery of anything nuclear that doesn’t have any human oversight.