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Old November 24th 18, 03:05 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Frank Whiteley
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Default MIT's Ion-drive sustainer takes flight

On Friday, November 23, 2018 at 10:13:29 AM UTC-7, Dan Marotta wrote:
That looks pretty sweet!Â* No rotors below to chop you up should you fall
off.Â* But, is that a fast breeder reactor that he's standing on?Â* It
would be great to be able to sell the excess plutonium to the
utilities.Â* Talk about "off the grid"!

On 11/23/2018 5:32 AM, teck48 wrote:
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....fL._SY445_.jpg


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Dan, 5J


Local communities might become independent and 'off the grid' using thorium reactors (developed at Los Alamos) but AFAIK, the NRC has not made deployment possible in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoriu..._nuclear_power