One of the trademark features of the Wasteland is the left-over "personal nuclear power" in the form of nuclear cars.

The real world is catching up:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/09/miniature-nuclear-reactors-los-alamos

Just thought it was amusing.

cool id love to look out of my kitchen window and see a small mushroom cloud on my lawn

Very cool!

Kind of sounds like what NASA is looking at for the Moon Base. A small nuclear reactor not much bigger than a trash can.
http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2008/sep/HQ_08-227_Moon_Power.html



Note: I want to make a political statement in this post, but I cannot on these boards.

heh, was just about to post this...
it is however a mini-powerplant designed to power aprox. 10,000 households at a time.
so it's not exactly a "personal" power plant (yet). but yeah, kinda made me think of
fallout as well.