Nuclear Batteries, a new approach to Carbon-Free energy
PEJOURNAL - Jacopo Buongiorno and others say factory-built microreactors or as have been called Nuclear Batteries trucked to usage sites could be a safe, efficient option for decarbonizing electricity systems. We may be on the brink of a new paradigm for nuclear power, a group of nuclear specialists suggested recently in The Bridge, the journal of the National Academy of Engineering. Much as large, expensive, and centralized computers gave way to the widely distributed PCs of today, a new generation of relatively tiny and inexpensive factory-built reactors (Nuclear Batteries), designed for autonomous plug-and-play operation similar to plugging in an oversized battery,…