Not impossible. The limit is cooling air flow. If you blew air through a 4m x 4m radiator at 30 m/s, 43 megawatts would generate a 68 C temperature rise.
Those sort of energy densities aren't strange. A hair dryer dissipates 1000 watts in, say, 10 x 8 x 6 cm. So a cube of hair dryers 2.7 meters on a side generates about 43 megawatts.
The reactor is the size of a bathtub. The steam generator would be outside, and likely be a whole building.
I've heard of Toshiba on and off for more then 10 years. I'd bet that if there is be someone willing to pay they already have such things ready. No idea what this Hyperion is bringing to the mix...
That just reflects a 40% efficiency converting the heat to electricity that is typical of a steam turbine system. The heat wouldn't be dissipated by the unit itself but by the generator system.
I would think that datacenters would love to have such a power unit. Two of them could easily back up each other, allowing for 100% power uptime without the use of lead-acid batteries which are expensive, heavy, require replacement every 3 years, etc.
This has to be a hoax, right? Let's bury an unattended box of hyper-toxic radioactive material in a box "transportable by truck" in every neighborhood where you can get to it just by digging. Yeah, that's a good idea..
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Never mind. It's a hoax. Dig out your old Battletech stuff and check the about page.
A thousand? Why think small? Take a septic tank and dive in a lake that's used as a watersource.
Sorry for the metaphor, but nuclear _is_ much cleaner then most things we use. and even if it spills, yes, there will be more cancers in the area but it's on the order of magnitude of any other industrial installations. You can't make anything without polluting some. Nuclear does it less then most.
No, that's simply not correct. Reactor innards aren't just fuel: it's the fission products that are dangerous. These things are incredibly toxic. It's true that "nuclear is clean" when you view the picture from outside the reactor. But that all assumes no idiot is going to dig one up and open it. That's easy enough to ensure when the reactor is a giant guarded facility or a military vessel. The suggestion here is to bury it under urban areas.
I doubt it's going to be either in urban areas or without any supervision. In urban areas you already have access to the grid.
Also there will be lots of metal and concrete, and I imagine some big locks. And it will be close/under either a power plant or a heat exchanger, so it'll be anything but abandoned.
Hyperion Power Generation, Inc. (HPG) was formed to bring to market the unique Hyperion (formerly Comstar)
Maybe they're just 80's battletech geeks like me. But in FASA's game, Comstar was the cult-like organization that held a monopoly on the use of Hyper Pulse Generator communication technology.
I'm not sure you understood the point. In what way is a 220V electric cable (those are the only ones they bury, but hell: I'll spot you the high tension lines if you like) or a truck (as jobeirne mentioned above) anywhere near as dangerous, as a box of post-fissile nuclear material?
Even discounting the possibility of terrorism, think of the possibility of poisoning the groundwater after an earthquake.
