blackaeronaut Wrote:Who said they were Terrawatt reactors? 200 GW a piece (makes for a big reactor, but Handwavium is involved) and even then we're using huge banks of capacitors. (Atalante is roughly 100km in diameter - I think there's enough room.) Upgrades will happen over time, and eventually they work their way towards have 1TW reactors... probably sometime around 2030's or 2040's. Okay or not okay?
So the roughrider produce more than half the nuclear energy the whole Earth produced in 2012? Sorry, I think you added a few too many zeros.
(According to this, 2012 Earth had a total nuclear generation of 370 GW).