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 was always kind of disappointed Heathkit Radio Shack never made a lower-cost kit for DIY’ers. “Free Power! And, You Did It Yourself!” Kidding aside, are there engineering reasons why a small reactor couldn’t power a single household or maybe 30 to 100 homes?