The article doesn't specify whether it's an RTG or an actual critical fission plant.

An RTG is more what I'd describe as a "battery".

I'm guessing actual fission since they seem to be dancing around the topic of how it works. It would be possible to build a sort of "solid state" fission plant with low enough core energy density such that liquid cooling is not required, which could allow a much smaller and less-complex plant.

No reason this can't work but personally it seems safer to consolidate fission generation in large plants rather than spread out through the community?

It's a compact fast reactor. The details are kept secret, but the application was for up to 20% enrichment, so I assume they use the expansion and contraction of the moderator(unspecified metal) to control the fission rate.

Yeah, I'm a big fan of large power plants, however, after the left successfully trashed V.C. Summer, that ship has probably sailed in the US.

Did you even open the links? I don’t think anyone’s house, low lying or not, will be underwater in the next century according to those charts. Also, all new builds must be stilted above flood plain to be permitted.

The Navy just got a patent for a very small fission reactor. It is designed to power the UFO-type craft that they patented a couple of months ago. It is VERY fast, travels under water, in the air, and in space. The craft doesn't experience the laws of physics, because it is surrounded by an electro-magnetic force field. It is an advancement of the system on the B2, where the e-m force field reduces the force of the drag from air molecules, so it is much more efficient than the older model aircraft.

If you believe that nonsense you're beyond help.

Well, in 2004, the Pentagon was supposedly suppressing a report that predicted Britain would be like Siberia by now. How’s it working there?

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...article_inline