This Alaskan Air Base Will Host An Experimental Mini Nuclear Reactor

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[algore]

About time

[null and void]

I want one...

[FreedomPoster]

Especially since our Dem pols want us to depend on solar and wind, which means freezing in the dark.

[beef]

This is how they are going to keep the elite going after they cut off the rest of us.

[ASOC]

Hope it turns out better than the mess they left at Ft Greeley, just down the road...

[BitWielder1]

The environazis will put a stop to it.

[seowulf]

You can get a SMR from GE Hitachi. A 300 MW unit would cost $1.5 billion.

[asinclair]

Looking at the various sites and references, none specify exactly what the fuel is. I was hoping that the NuScale reactors would be liquid-salt thorium, but the lack of details suggest that the reactors are the traditional fast-breeder reactors. Anyone know differently?

[Cobra64]

These mini-nuke things should be sprinkled all over America. They’re cheap, efficient, and can be built quickly.

[21twelve]

Lots of villages in Alaska get all of their electricity from diesel Caterpillar engines/generators. They use a LOT of expensive fuel. (Well, the fuel is bad enough, it is the cost of getting it to them that is really expensive!)

[1FreeAmerican]

“The Department of the Air Force announced the selection of Eielson as the host facility for this pilot reactor because it’s in the middle of nowhere, and nobody cares about Alaska anyways”.

[moovova]

And, Ft. Wainright. Heck, they built base housing on a toxic waste site.

[Blurb2350]

Yeah, these “mini nukes” could be a real game changer — provided they can be made idiot-proof. Otherwise we’re likely to see mini Chernobyls dotting the landscape.

[null and void]

So a 5 kW one would be $2.5 million?

[BenLurkin]

Muslim magnets.

[AppyPappy]

A 1950’s science fiction movie about to happen

[seowulf]

“So a 5 kW one would be $2.5 million?”

Something like that. Smallest I’ve heard of though is 20MW.

Might want to pool your recources with your neighbors for one of those though.

[Reily]

There’s a lot of old military facilities like that.
Usually its not the building of the facility on the dump it’s the dump grows over time in the facility particularly in the old ones. In the old days when the war ended and you were told to get rid of the excess POL & ammo supplies no one much cared how you did it.

[momincombatboots]

Amen.. let’s have at least as many as France. A little disconcerting that it is controlled by the military. A woke, maybe not so citizen friendly military.

[Tallguy]

I think the USAF had a reactor back in the ‘60s at their base in Greenland. Everything that is old is new again.