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I believe there used to be a number of small reactors back in the day. But some poor design issues saw them canned.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/heroic-failures/the-f...

McMurdo ice camp in Antarctica briefly was run via contained nuclear reactor.

I also wouldn't call it a Nimby issue. If a disaffected terrorist decided to blow up a small nuclear unit the issues would be considerable. Currently nuclear power plants are guarded like wartime POW camps.

The army did also try to build portable nuclear power generators

https://youtu.be/HPWDMHH4rY4



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