(Edit: seems like everyone is reading this as an argument against nuclear power in the abstract, and skipping the second paragraph. Come on people. You can be OK with large defensible reactors and still think that dropping a 5MW reactor into a random ass residential neighborhood is dumb as shit. Dangerous stuff is dangerous. Be careful with it and use it judiciously.)
As it should. A reactor core is just trivially the most poisonous single object humanity has invented. And by definition it's a operated by controlling a chain reaction that can by its very nature lead to excursions.
And the benefit here is a 1-5MW generator, the same market served by existing largely portable diesel generators.
Seems like a cost/benefit analysis might have a lot to say here. Maybe spacecraft might be a better fit, but... a portable generator? I don't see the need, personally.
As it should. A reactor core is just trivially the most poisonous single object humanity has invented. And by definition it's a operated by controlling a chain reaction that can by its very nature lead to excursions.
And the benefit here is a 1-5MW generator, the same market served by existing largely portable diesel generators.
Seems like a cost/benefit analysis might have a lot to say here. Maybe spacecraft might be a better fit, but... a portable generator? I don't see the need, personally.