Nuclear power

What Will The Citizens Of New Jersey Mutate Into?

So apparently there’s tritium leaking into one of New Jersey’s main aquifers. As a proud Garden Stater, I have no choice but to hope that this environmental clusterfuck will give us fancy new phenotypes and not horrible, horrible cancer. Even though the radioactive run-off from the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Lacey Township, New…

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Our Troops Need Turd-Powered Nuclear Reactors

This is not an April Fool’s post. This is a serious post about DARPA, the military’s experimental research arm, and how they want to explore human waste as a fuel source for portable nuclear reactors on overseas military bases. Seriously. DARPA’s recent Request For Information seeks a method to “enable the development of deployable nuclear…

Tech News Brian Barrett

An Underground Nuclear Reactor Powered by Bill Gates’ Money

A unit of Intellectual Ventures—the patent firm started by ex-Microsoft chief tech dude Nathan Myhrvold and funded partly by Bill Gates—called TerraPower is talking with Toshiba about using its nuclear reactor tech to build underground reactors. Their reactor tech supposedly can “run for decades on depleted uranium without refueling or removing spent fuel from the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Let’s Send A Nuclear Reactor To The Moon!

Humanity is eventually going to go to the moon again, and we’re bringing nuclear technology with us! NASA has long been working on the problem of electricity on the moon, and the newest possible solution is a portable nuclear reactor. The reactor itself is about the size of a large wastebasket, but it can be…

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Victor Cohn (1919-2000)

The prophets of misery and robotism too often focus their sights on the cocktail party instead of the school. They describe the life of past generations in nostalgic terms, but do not really compare the lives of average housewives or factory workers today with the lives of their grandparents and with the drudgery, ignorance and…

Tech News Matt Novak

Nuclear-Powered Aircraft (1960)

The Winter, 1960 edition of Air Progress magazine featured two nuclear-powered aircaft on its cover. Much like the nuclear-powered car, which was a popular idea among forward-thinking automobile designers of the 1950s, this idea never really took off. (Get it? Took off! TOOK OFF! Nevermind.) Previously on Paleo-Future: Air Force Predictions for 2063 (1963) Nuclear…

Tech News Matt Novak

1979: The Year We Wussed Out on Nuclear Power

The China Syndrome was a movie about how dangerous nuclear power plants are that, fortunately for the producers, came out 12 days before the Three Mile Island disaster. You can thank it for why we’re still reliant on coal power. The name of the movie refers to a downright-preposterous idea that if a nuclear power…

Movies Adam Frucci

Backyard Nuclear Reactors Now In Production, Cost $25 Million Each

I have to admit, I’m finally starting to believe that Hyperion Power’s plans to install nuclear reactors in the backyards of America’s neighborhoods is actually going to happen. In fact, after learning that they have already begun construction on the first 4,000 units I have no doubt that they will make their 2013 deadline as…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Backyard Nuclear Reactor Should Be Ready to Ship by 2013

Hyperion Power’s plans to develop and sell portable nuclear reactors first came to light last year—but most people probably brushed off the idea as some sort of fantasy. Whether that is true or not, Hyperion seems to be committed to the project. A recent interview with Hyperion CEO John Deal revealed that they have every…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Toshiba: F*** the Format War, We’re Going Nuclear (No, Really)

Who needs to wage a costly format war when you could build nuclear power plants? That’s Toshiba’s thinking exactly. They just launched a brand new company, Toshiba America Nuclear Energy Corp., which will “enhance” its nuclear power business in the US. Um…what? [Yahoo!/Reuters]

Gadgets Matt Buchanan

What Will The Citizens Of New Jersey Mutate Into?

Our Troops Need Turd-Powered Nuclear Reactors

An Underground Nuclear Reactor Powered by Bill Gates’ Money

Let’s Send A Nuclear Reactor To The Moon!

Victor Cohn (1919-2000)

Nuclear-Powered Aircraft (1960)

1979: The Year We Wussed Out on Nuclear Power

Backyard Nuclear Reactors Now In Production, Cost $25 Million Each

Backyard Nuclear Reactor Should Be Ready to Ship by 2013

Toshiba: F*** the Format War, We’re Going Nuclear (No, Really)

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