Smallest possible fission generator? - Page 2

Crystalline_Entity · 01-07-2017, 08:36 AM

I've been looking through Ultra-Tech and noticed that at TL9 there's a semi-portable fission generator which weighs 1,000 lbs and "fits in a trunk bed" (p.20) which can generate external power. Compared to the small modular reactors mentioned in Disasters: Meltdown and Fallout (p.6) this seems awfully small (in both volume and mass) even if they're TL8 and the fission generator in Ultra-Tech is TL9.

I can imagine that Ultra-Tech assumes "external power" is less than the 10-100 MWe that Disasters: Meltdown and Fallout says so the reactor in Ultra-Tech may be somewhat smaller, but is the TL9 fission generator in Ultra-Tech reasonable, or it is borderline superscience? How small can you plausibly make a fission reactor?

01-07-2017, 08:36 AM	#1
Crystalline_Entity Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: England	Smallest possible fission generator? I've been looking through Ultra-Tech and noticed that at TL9 there's a semi-portable fission generator which weighs 1,000 lbs and "fits in a trunk bed" (p.20) which can generate external power. Compared to the small modular reactors mentioned in Disasters: Meltdown and Fallout (p.6) this seems awfully small (in both volume and mass) even if they're TL8 and the fission generator in Ultra-Tech is TL9. I can imagine that Ultra-Tech assumes "external power" is less than the 10-100 MWe that Disasters: Meltdown and Fallout says so the reactor in Ultra-Tech may be somewhat smaller, but is the TL9 fission generator in Ultra-Tech reasonable, or it is borderline superscience? How small can you plausibly make a fission reactor?