Toshiba has developed a new class of micro size Nuclear Reactors
that is designed to power individual apartment buildings or city blocks.

 The new reactor, which is only 20 feet by 6 feet, could change everything
 for small remote communities, small businesses or even a group of neighbors
 who are fed up with the power companies and want more control
over their energy needs.

The 200 kilowatt Toshiba designed reactor is engineered to be fail-safe and totally automatic
and will not overheat. Unlike traditional nuclear reactors the new micro reactor uses no control rods
to initiate the reaction. The new revolutionary technology uses reservoirs of liquid lithium-6, an isotope
that is effective at absorbing neutrons.
The Lithium-6 reservoirs are connected to a vertical tube that fits into the reactor core.
 The whole whole process is self sustaining and can last for up to 40 years, producing electricity
 for only 5 cents per kilowatt hour, about half the cost of grid energy.

 Toshiba expects to install the first reactor in Japan in 2008
and to begin marketing the new system in Europe and America in 2009.