Re:Powering the lunar base, version 2
by AtlasBarfed on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:59AM
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LFTRs can scale down to closet sized, and most of the fuel (Thorium) is stable aside from the ignition uranium plug, but there's a LOT of materials to solve for long service.
There are also the nuclear batteries in some of the longer lived space probes. Those batteries have the major advantage of being very simple - a lump of radioactive material that gets warm - attach a thermocouple and voila! Electricity!