Toshiba's Micro Nuclear Plant: Nice Idea, But A Hoax
Filed in archive Misc by Dameon Welch-Abemathy on January 27, 2008
The 200 kilowatt Toshiba designed reactor is engineered to be fail-safe and totally automatic and will not overheat. Unlike traditional nuclear reactors the new micro reactor uses no control rods to initiate the reaction. The new revolutionary technology uses reservoirs of liquid lithium-6, an isotopethat is effective at absorbing neutrons. The Lithium-6 reservoirs are connected to a vertical tube that fits into the reactor core. The whole whole process is self sustaining and can last for up to 40 years, producing electricity for only 5 cents per kilowatt hour, about half the cost of grid energy.
This story got picked up by Dvorak Uncensored, Engadget, Gizmodo, Wired, and others. Strangely, I could find no mention of this on Toshiba's main corporate site, and I know they do some stuff with nuclear reactors in Japan.
Eventually, someone actually asked Toshiba about it and confirmed it was a hoax. Oh well, so much for my dreams of a neighborhood reactor. Another example of blogosphere truth versus the real truth.
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