Can Utility Scale Nuclear Batteries Be Economical?
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6HXXA)
Shell Oil and Southern Electric utility company had a 2021 research paper that explored if nuclear batteries could be economical for generating power. (Above - (a) MIT's conceptualization of a nuclear battery (NB) with integrated gas turbine; (b) LANL's Megapower; (c) NASA and LANL's KRUSTY/Kilopower reactor using Stirling engine technology for space applications; (d) Westinghouse's ...