Small Nuclear Reactor Moved, As Challenges Remain
February 26, 2026
The US government’s first transport by airlift of a small nuclear reactor from California to Utah, meant to demonstrate the ease of portability, “highlights the Trump administration’s drive to promote nuclear energy,” NPR reports. In Issues, Aditi Verma, Katie Snyder, and Shanna Daly maintain that advancing nuclear energy will also require new approaches to engineering education. Along with providing customary technical training, they write, “a more robust standard of engineering proficiency would include a deep appreciation of the social, cultural, and ethical priorities and implications of the technological solutions engineers are tasked with designing and deploying.”