Nuclear micro reactors to hit the market

If your image of nuclear power is giant, cylindrical concrete cooling towers pouring out steam on a site that takes up hundreds of acres of land, soon there will be an alternative.

Tiny nuclear reactors that produce only one hundredth the electricity and can even be delivered on a truck are about to hit the market.

Small but meaningful amounts of electricity — nearly enough to run a small campus, a hospital, or a military complex, for example — will pulse from a new generation of micronuclear reactors.