General Atomics' $40-million gamble on small nukes:
"The scientists and engineers at General Atomics think the future of
nuclear energy is coming on the back of a flatbed truck.
The leadership at the San Diego company, which has been developing
nuclear technologies for more than 60 years, has already spent $40
million in the expectation that its ambitious plans for the next
generation of reactors will actually work.
“We have technology that we think is going to qualitatively change the
game," said Christina Back, vice president of nuclear technologies and
materials at General Atomics.
Called the Energy Multiplier Module, or EM˛ (EM-squared), the concept
is still in the development stage but promises to produce electricity
more cheaply, safely and efficiently than the nation’s current fleet of
nuclear plants."
See:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...nap-story.html