02-02-2023, 01:22 AM
I've always been in support of those small modular nuclear power generators. But what I would love to have is my own personal thorium nuclear power generator. I'd image it'd be about half the size of shipping container. You bury that sucker about 20' down and forget about for the next 50+ years. I think the only reason they haven't progressed with them is that they need a starter to trigger the reaction and so far they've only been able to achieve the reaction with plutonium - and I don't think they want even 1 gram of that stuff in the hands of your average Joe six-pack. Or I could just do what this kid did and buy a metric fuckton of smoke detectors and build my own reactor...