The US army has selected nine sites for the potential deployment of microreactor power plants as it looks to the technology for increased and more resilient power production on its bases.
The locations that could house microreactors by 2030 as part of the army’s next-generation reactor Janus Program are: Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Fort Campbell, Kentucky; Fort Drum, New York; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Wainwright, Alaska; Holston Army Ammunition Plant in Tennessee; Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; and Redstone Arsenal in Alabama.
Army secretary Dan Driscoll announced the Janus Program last month, pledging to partner with commercial industry to place the small nuclear power reactors on some of the army’s posts which will require more power access in the decades to come as the service increases its use of artificial intelligence capabilities and new-age weaponry.