And closely followed by Valar Atomics two weeks later: https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-celebrates...

Great to see engineering deliver on time. I wonder if Rolls Royce will also have a smooth ride. It's a PWR.

Are there any other examples of land-based militaries using nuclear power? Seems kind of like since they can't talk about the energy transition or w/e this has to be a military thing instead.

Should we double down on renewable energy and solve its issues with lots of batteries or should we invest in next generation nuclear energy?

Both at the same time?

Does anyone know?

The French reprocess and recycle fissile material but that’s kind of a gnarly industrial process. Still they do it and it works.

The long term solution is to create a second kind of reactor that has a higher burn fraction which means a more fuel efficient fast reactor. Those would be, ideally, the big base load plants if we did this rationally.

> "The demonstration and the licensing pathway it establishes represent a key step toward deploying electricity-producing microreactors for U.S. military installations by September 30, 2028."

So which is it? Power to the people or power to the military? This microreactor concept doesn't seem very well suited for commercial use.