Posted on 11/02/2024 5:10:18 AM PDT by fruser1
The Marine Corps base at Quantico could have its own small nuclear reactor to insulate it from power outages if plans floated by the U.S. Navy earlier this month are fruitful. Quantico is one of seven Navy and Marine Corps bases, including four in Virginia, slated for its own nuclear-based power supply.
“Ensuring that installations can continue their mission in the event of a grid power outage is a critical priority,” the solicitation states.
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So it's taking steps to make sure it has power when you and I don't.
Microsoft will have it's own nuclear power site on Three-Mile Island.
The combination of government and large businesses being the only ones with power is a telling fact of the increasing degree of fascism in the US.
Fascism is the coordination of governments and business to rule the public.
If I’m reading this correctly, there are at least 4 military bases in Virginia. Why so many, when we have several other states nearby? I am guessing there is strategic and historic importance to that exact location and it’s distance from large bodies of water.
Does the FBI academy get to piggyback on this ?
I don’t know but I doubt it. Generally civilian and military don’t mix.
Although I agree with you, any town or city cana purchase and operate these micro-reactors. These and SMRs will provided the middle ground for any community to ensure they can weather out rolling blackouts.
The hill is that there are so many people who automatically scream “nuclear” when they hear of this, but it is the only real green energy which can sustain the modern lifestyle.
There are at least 23 installations in Virginia:
https://installations.militaryonesource.mil/state/VA/state-installations
Base-wise, you'd figure there'd be something at every major inlet. In Virginia you have the Chesapeake Bay with sizeable rivers going inward - Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James. Lots of ship building at the mouth of the James river.
I figured ship building must have been one of the features.
Most people are not aware of the importance of even the existence of Dry Docks.
In my California Bay Area. there used to be a very large navel base in Alameda. a small island of a town, connected to Oakland by a tunnel. Bill Clinton put the kabash on funding that.
“If I’m reading this correctly, there are at least 4 military bases in Virginia. Why so many, when we have several other states nearby? I am guessing there is strategic and historic importance to that exact location and it’s distance from large bodies of water.”
Reagan tried to break things up but it didn’t work and became a boondogle. The two bases near me (Mobile and Pascagoula) were never completed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Homeport
We can help jump start the new small modular nuclear power industry by making 100% of U.S. milititary fascilities power-independent that way. All communications should be shifted “off-the-grid” to secure encrypted satellites, like someone like Musk could build and deploy.
Any plant is at least 10 years down the road before operational.
If anybody knows how to safely operate a small nuclear reactor, it would be the US Navy: the first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus SSN 571 was christened in January, 1954.
That’s a 70-year experience in safe nuclear power from small reactors.
“In my California Bay Area. there used to be a very large navel base in Alameda.”
I was stationed at NAS Alameda in 69’. It was wonderful back then.
Most Likely.
I hear Alameda, and all.i can think Bout is Nichelle Nichols asking about the naval base on n Alameda, and Walter Koenig saying “nuclear vessels”.
Military bases are the best candidates for SMRs (Small Modular Reactors) as one of the largest costs of operating a Nuclear Plant is the security. Quantico having it’s own plant would add to the overall power pool serving DC and all of the Data Centers springing up out the I66 corridor.
There are lot more than 4 in Va.
There are lots of designs for small nuclear reactors, from the more complex “vertical” models, one as tall as three stories, to the self-contained “shipping container” sized “plug and play” with zero non-factory maintenance.
The reason these are so hot is simply that they don’t need the vast infrastructure of large nuclear plants. They trade a vast amount of power for a large area with a moderate amount of power for say, half a dozen high rise apartment buildings or a large industrial park.
Very cost efficient.
“There are lot more than 4 in Va.”
I think you directed that to the wrong person. lee martell made the comment about 4 bases.
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