Nuclear reactors have been powering aircraft carriers for years. Why they haven’t already been used to provide secure, off grid power to military bases is beyond me.
I’ve often wondered why we didn’t just commission the Navy to run a bunch of nuclear power plants based on naval tech. We get power and the Navy gets more trained personnel.
If the military used these in Afghanistan, Biden would have left them to the Taliban.
Exactly. I suppose it’s just a “cost/risk/reward” thing. The reward for an air craft carrier is HUGE.
This is a fun old story:
https://youtu.be/DZHONQAMV48?t=669
I linked at the time stamp where it gets especially weird, but the whole thing is interesting. Kinda reminds one of the final part of Dr. Strangelove.