Homocon: No Blood for Nuclear

"'The small town of Galena, Alaska, is tired of paying 28 cents/kwh for its electricity, which is three times the national average. Today, Galena 'is powered by generators burning diesel that is barged in during the Yukon River's ice-free months,' according to Reuters. But Toshiba, which designs a small nuclear reactor named 4S (for 'Super Safe, Small, & Simple'), is offering a free reactor to the 700-person village . . . Galena will only pay for operating costs, driving down the price of electricity to less than 10 cents/kwh. The 4S is a sodium-cooled fast spectrum reactor -- a low-pressure, self-cooling reactor. It will generate power for 30 years before refueling . . . '"