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[–] 3 points 20 hours ago* (2 children)

You would also need to improve the thermal efficiency. In a modern fission power plant, about one-third of the energy is converted to electricity, and two-thirds is just waste heat. Imagine having that sort of efficiency in a chest-mounted reactor. Where are you going to dump all that heat?

We need a technological leap that is comparable to the jump from candles to LEDs.

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