Air Force nears end of contested microreactor procurement process
July 26, 2024, 9:30AMNuclear News
Eielson Air Force Base is shown in this screen grab from a video hosted on the base’s website. (Image: DOD)
Eielson Air Force Base in central Alaska has been the preferred location to demonstrate the benefits of microreactors to the U.S. Air Force—and by extension the Defense Department—since 2018. Now, a protracted solicitation process is nearing an end, and the Air Force and the Defense Logistics Agency Energy (DLA Energy) expect to announce a final procurement decision by the end of the summer—or about one year after Oklo Inc. announced that it had been tentatively selected to supply a microreactor under a 30-year power purchase agreement.
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