{"id":120814,"date":"2021-03-23T11:23:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/portable-nuclear-reactor-project-moves-forward-at-pentagon"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:23:05","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T18:23:05","slug":"portable-nuclear-reactor-project-moves-forward-at-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/portable-nuclear-reactor-project-moves-forward-at-pentagon","title":{"rendered":"Portable nuclear reactor project moves forward at Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/portable-nuclear-reactor-project-moves-forward-at-pentagon2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The two companies, along with Westinghouse Government Services, were each given preliminary contracts of less than $15 million in March 2020 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/smr\/nuclear-arsenal\/2020\/03\/09\/pentagon-to-award-mobile-nuclear-reactor-contracts-this-week\/\" target=_blank>begin design work<\/a>. The final design is due to the Strategic Capabilities Office in 2022, at which point the Defense Department will make a decision on whether to move forward with testing the systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled with the progress our industrial partners have made on their designs,\u201d Jeff Waksman, Project Pele\u2019s program manager, said in a statement. \u201cWe are confident that by early 2022 we will have two engineering designs matured to a sufficient state that we will be able to determine suitability for possible construction and testing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon has long eyed nuclear power as a potential way to reduce both its energy cost and its vulnerability in its dependence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2017\/11\/29\/pentagon-weighs-new-requirements-to-secure-militarys-vulnerable-power-grid\/\" target=_blank>on local energy grids<\/a>. According to a news release, the Defense Department uses \u201capproximately 30 Terawatt-hours of electricity per year and more than 10 million gallons of fuel per day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two companies, along with Westinghouse Government Services, were each given preliminary contracts of less than $15 million in March 2020 to begin design work. The final design is due to the Strategic Capabilities Office in 2022, at which point the Defense Department will make a decision on whether to move forward with testing the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1490,9,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-government","category-military","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}