Babcock and Wilcox: New nukes?

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/4182980

Lynchburg-based Babcock & Wilcox has high hopes for an alternative that would involve a sort of Mini Cooper version of a nuclear reactor housed underground in a concrete bunker.

As envisioned, the reactor would measure about 12 feet wide by 75 feet long, (or tall, when installed). B&W's trademarked mPower reactor would be small enough to travel by rail or similar means from the point of its manufacture to its underground home. Unlike fossil fuel-fired facilities, mPower's generation of electricity would not emit carbon dioxide.

And utilities would not have to bet the farm to finance the bone-rattling costs of a conventional reactor.