ApocaDocs: Are Mini-Reactors The Future Of Nuclear Power?

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Posted Mon Feb 4 2013: from NPR:


	Are Mini-Reactors The Future Of Nuclear Power? http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1360011965 The U.S. government is investing millions of dollars in what it considers a promising new industry for American manufacturing: nuclear reactors. The plan is to build hundreds of mini-reactors, dot them around the U.S. and export them overseas. Development of these reactors are already in the works, and at one office park in Lynchburg, Va., where one of these reactors is being assembled, the traditional signs of nuclear reactors are nowhere to be found. There are no cooling towers that look like smoke stacks, no clouds of steam over the buildings -- just a research building and a tower about nine stories tall.

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