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PORTABLE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS…..?

Is that a dream…..or a nightmare?

I’m thinking the former…...

The Hyperion Power Generation uranium hydride reactor will weigh fifteen to 20 tons…designed to fit on the back of a flatbed truck because most of our customers are not going to have rail….It will generate 27-30 Megawatts of electrical power from 70 MW of thermal power….Here is a comparison to help put the system’s potential into perspective. A single truck can deliver the HPM heat source to a site. The device is supposed to be able to produce 70 MW of thermal energy for 5 years. That means that the truck will be delivering about 10.5 trillion BTU’s to the site. Natural gas costs about $7 per million BTU which would would cost $73 million….about 3 times as much as the announced selling price for an HPM…(but), it would be better to compare the HPM to diesel fuel, which currently costs about 2 times as much per unit of useful heat as natural gas and still requires some form of delivery for remote locations. In some places, fuel transportation costs are two or three times as much as the cost of the fuel from the central supply points.

Wouldn’t THIS be incredible? READ THE WHOLE THING

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