New mini-nuclear power plant and some rambling from me!

[ReHerakhte]

While I really like The Morrow Project RPG http://www.timelineltd.com/webstore/pro ... ucts_id=28 I was never really happy with the way they resolved their independence from petroleum fuels. The use of a 'sci-fi' fusion powerplant to power vehicles and their underground shelters didn't appeal to me but with fuel cell technology getting more advanced I could resolve the vehicle powerplant problem.

Now, Hyperion Power Generation has resolved the other issue for me. They market the Hyperion, a small nuclear powerplant that is literally an install and forget for 5+ years nuclear battery. The plant is solid-state, completely sealed from the outside, approx 1.5m wide, can be transported on the back of a truck, cheaper than conventional reactors, produces 70Mw of thermal energy or 25Mw of electricity (enough to power 20,000 homes) and they can be linked together to provide greater output if needed.

The Hyperion was formerly known as the Comstar (small, modular, non-weapons grade nuclear power reactor - invented by Dr. O. Peterson from Los Alamos National Laboratory). I think this plant is an awesome tool for the Referee in DC, corporations can have energy independence from a government (or other corporation) or the proles can gaze wistfully at the corporate wonderland over the other side of the river that never suffers from any power shortage no matter how many times there's blackouts.
It could be used as the power supply for any manner of specialist research centres, remote communities or even form the powerplant for smaller ships or even commercial cargo submarines - okay, so I stole that idea, if I remember correctly, from Dream Pod 9's Cyberpunk 2020 supplement called Night's Edge: Alternate Reality Universe - their Dark Metropolis supplement, while rare now, has a lot of dark, gritty stuff for cities in horror games - there's a good page from the author of Night's Edge here http://www.geocities.com/area51/rampart ... rnate.html

Hyperion website here http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/