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The following is sourced from Wikipedia's Kilopower:.
An actual 1-10 kW, small, self-contained nuclear reactor, with built-in Stirling power converters to output electrical energy.
They are very compact (even with allowance for the radiative cooling vanes, cheap, and reliable.
OK, I am lying about that second attribute. As with anything nuclear, cheap does ...
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