Military May Recruit Tiny Nuclear Reactors
February 1, 2019
The US military is renewing its interest in very small nuclear reactors for use on remote operating bases, says a news account on the Defense One website, going on to cite an Army study claiming that such innovation will also have “significant impact” on the nation’s commercial power industry. But in Issues, a trio of nuclear experts recently noted that the necessary characteristics of tiny reactors would render them unlikely to have “broad commercial desirability,” though the authors do see a possible modest role for the military in aiding the nuclear enterprise.