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Portable Nuclear Reactor Program Sparks Controversy
EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
6/28/2021
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The Defense Department is working to quickly procure a small, transportable nuclear reactor that could help bring energy to remote and austere environments.
However, the program has drawn criticism from nuclear nonproliferation experts for potentially causing disasters on battlefields.
The Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office selected two teams in March to continue their work developing transportable nuclear microreactor prototypes as part of “Project Pele.” The effort was originally formulated in the fall of 2018 in response to language in the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act about the need to find a solution to a perennial problem: providing power to U.S. troops, said Jeff Waksman, program manager for the effort. ....

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