Pentagon officials are asking contractors to outline how they’d design, build and deploy a microreactor at Eielson within five years.
Pentagon officials have taken another step toward building a small nuclear power plant for Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks. Last week, they released a
“We’re looking to make sure that at any point in time, any of our bases with any mission will have the power it needs, where it needs it, when it needs it, in the quantities that it needs, to assure that we can continue to do the defense mission that we have,” he said.“There’s both a geopolitical reason, as well as an energy-resilience reason. Which is why Eielson is so exciting,” says Lucian Niemeyer, a principal with UCAN, a Washington, D.C.
“Eielson relies on a coal plant with oil backup in a very critical area of the country,” he said in an interview Monday. “Nuclear power can serve a significant capability to run these critical bases and assets on reliable power for a period of five to 10 years without refueling,” Niemeyer said.
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