CherenkovBlue

You should educate yourself about GenIV reactors (designs, supply chains, costs...) before you embarrass yourself.

The technologies on which these reactor designs are based have been demonstrated previously. The specific designs are in progress and well on their way. AGR, EBR-II, and MSRE are examples.

Nope. Deployment of factory fabricated microreactors is planned for the 2030s.

There are technology (reactor) demonstrations planned within the next 2-3 years, so not quite but very close. A lot of active R&D work going on right now for specific designs at a lot of companies.

That's why factory fabricated microreactors are such a cool concept!

Right. Like damn, get real. We gonna have 50-story towers decorating the landscape for every 73 homes?? It doesn't even make sense for extremely remote and impoverished locations due to the amount of materials it needs (cost).

My "woods" are the Rocky Mountains, so my thinking goes there.

Do I get gear or not? If I have gear, I will be pretty set for a while during summer. I backpack in the wilderness so I can get pretty comfy on minimal kit. I am working on learning foraging, and a region-specific book would be handy. I would be screwed come winter though, because of the snow, wind, cold, lack of fuel (buried under snow), and lack of food.

No gear, that's rough any time of year. I would probably die of exposure pretty quick even in the summer depending on altitude. If I am up in the high mountains the water will probably be safe without boiling, so it could be drunk from the source. I'd have to find a cave or build a shelter in a wooded area. It would be tough to start a fire and do anything without a knife.

I don't want to be in the mountains without gear. Seriously. I think I would head right back down and turn my ass over to the authorities.

Aaaand this is what we were afraid would happen. Hamas doesn't care about the civilians of Gaza. It is such a horrible organization, there are no words to express it.

It uses a ton of material to power 73 homes annually (652 feet high and 45 feet in diameter), works best in a desert but requires a lot of water. Yeah, nuclear energy is really threatened by that. Modern microreactors in development make, for example, 1.5 MWe at let's say 90% capacity factor. Assuming about 1000 kWh/mo for a house, that microreactor, which can fit on the back of a semi truck and be transported down the highway that way, can power 985 homes anually and doesn't require cooling water (will require water for electrical steam generation).

Yeah, I will stick with nuclear, thanks.

Aaaaaand this is one reason I stopped posting photos to Facebook ages ago. They are probably doing something similar with posts as well. Quitting FB is a wise idea.

Intersex genital surgery and circumcision should not occur on children. Adults should be free to choose what they want done to their bodies.