[ExI] Are mini nuclear power stations the way forward?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:02:15AM -0400, Mr Jones wrote:
> Eugen: What are your thoughts on the TerraPower idea?  Same as 'traditional'
> nuclear?

It is a very interesting concept, in theory. We'll see
how/if it will work out in practice.

Nuclear engineering is a difficult enough discipline even
hands-on, as a nonspecialist commenting on speculative
designs I would be way out of my depth.

As a meta-comment I would only say that in a zero-sum
budget it would be a loser. 

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