We should use mini nuclear power plants.

[Swampy]

I've been following this for awhile.

We have the technology to build miniature nuclear power plants, about the size of a school bus or two, which would be cheap, effective and, above all, safe. This has been done for decades with our nuclear-powered submarines, and, as the incoming head of the international Nuclear Energy said, would be the perfect solution to everyone's energy concerns.

In fact, Galena, Alaska, has been wanting to use the Toshiba S4 mini-reactor for this, but the project has been stalled. I hope the DEA approves it, so we can see what happens.

[premier1]

Hydrogen-Boron Reactors are the safer future alternative.

[dry]

Apr 17, 2014 17:24:21 GMT -5 premier1 said:

Hydrogen-Boron Reactors are the safer future alternative.

Do you mean a hydrogen-boron aneutronic fusion reactor?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

there:

1p + 11B → 3 * 4He + 8.7 MeV

ie. the fusion of a hydrogen nucleus with a boron nucleus makes 3 helium nuclei plus 8.7 megaelectron volts of energy.

But the technical difficulties are great, excerpt from the above:

"For any given densities of the reacting nuclei, the reaction rate for hydrogen-boron achieves its peak rate at around 600 keV (6.6 billion degrees Celsius or 6.6 gigakelvins)."

The technology for mini nuclear plants is here right and now, on the other hand.

AJY