US Airlifts New Nuclear Reactor Breakthrough. -
Stephen GreenThe U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense on Sunday for the first time transported a small nuclear reactor
on a cargo plane from California to Utah to demonstrate the potential to
quickly deploy nuclear power for military and civilian use.The agencies partnered with California-based Valar Atomics to fly one of the company’s Ward microreactors on a C-17 aircraft — without nuclear fuel — to Hill Air Force Base in Utah.
- “This gets us closer to deploy nuclear power when and where it is needed to give our nation’s warfighters the tools to win in battle,” Duffey said.
Why not deploy nuclear power almost everywhere?
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