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U.S. Air Force opens power reactor RFI
The U.S. Air Force wants to hear from companies that could be interested in deploying small nuclear reactors at its bases.
The request for information posted Wednesday intends to assist the federal government in identifying potential developers and “understanding the company’s capability to design, license, fuel, construct, and deploy Small, Micro, or Modular Reactor (SMR) technologies in compliance with applicable regulatory, safety, environmental, and security requirements.”
Lav Tandon, Kevin Kuhn, Diane Tompkins, Thomas Burr, Donald Temer, Elizabeth Hastings, Usha Narayanan, Donivan Porterfield, Amy Wong (LANL), Pam Thompson (AWE), Jacqueline Fonnesbeck (INL), Jon Nuehoff (New Brunswick Laboratory), Richard Torres (LLNL), Michael Holland (Savannah River Site)
Transactions | Volume 97 | Number 1 | November 2007 | Pages 259-260
Track 6: Medical and Nonpower Applications of Radiation