This Alaskan Air Base Will Host An Experimental Mini Nuclear Reactor
The military hopes its new mini nuclear reactor will lead to new battlefield energy capabilities and help power its sprawling installations.
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Check Out This Los Angeles Class Nuclear Submarine Transformed Into A Floating Schoolhouse
The USS San Francisco was already cut up once after impacting a seamount. The submarine was chopped up again to make it into a floating schoolhouse.
The Military’s Mobile Nuclear Reactor Prototype Is Set To Begin Taking Shape
Project Pele is one potentially revolutionary, albeit controversial, answer to the military’s growing battlefield energy requirements.
Russia Changes Position On Radiation Leaks Again Weeks After Nuclear Missile Explosion
New details about a still very mysterious explosion related to the development of the nuclear-powered missile Burevestnik raise further questions about how transparent the Kremlin is being about the scale of the accident that killed at least seven people.
Russia’s Fire-Damaged “Losharik” Spy Submarine Heads For Repairs As New Details Emerge
Russia will reportedly soon tow its top-secret nuclear-powered Project 10831 Losharik spy submarine to a shipyard in northwestern Russian for extensive repairs. Reports offering additional details about the accident have also begun to emerge, though the Kremlin has offered little in the way of official information about the incident, just as it has continued to be coy about exactly what happened during a recent explosion during a missile test that involved a nuclear power source.
Russia Will “Briefly” Evacuate Village Near Site Of Nuclear-Powered Missile Accident (Updated)
Five days after a still very mysterious explosion at a missile test site in northwestern Russia, authorities have announced what they say will be a brief evacuation of a small village nearby, despite saying this was unnecessary in the immediate aftermath of the incident. The announcement comes as evidence mounts that the accident involved a nuclear-powered cruise missile known as Burevestnik.
Evidence Grows That Russia’s Nuclear-Powered Doomsday Missile Was What Blew Up Last Week (Updated)
The Kremlin has now acknowledged that the incident killed at least seven scientists and other personnel from major state nuclear research laboratory, who were working on a system that included a small nuclear reactor at the time. This same lab is linked to the development of a nuclear-powered cruise missile called Burevestnik and U.S. intelligence officials are reportedly increasingly of the view that one of these weapons, or a test article related to it, exploded in this mishap.
Russia Admits Mysterious Missile Engine Explosion Involved A Nuclear ‘Isotope Power Source’ (Updated)
Russia’s state-run nuclear corporation Rosatom says that a team of its employees had been working on an experimental “isotope power source” when it exploded, killing five people and injuring three more in a still very mysterious accident yesterday. The company offered no specifics about the project, but this new information, coupled with other details, suggests that this power source may be associated with a nuclear-powered cruise missile called Burevestnik that the Kremlin first announced publicly last year.
The U.S. Military Wants Tiny Road Mobile Nuclear Reactors That Can Fit In A C-17
The power demands to sustain American military operations are only increasing, but small nuclear power plants could present new problems.
Russia Is Hunting For Its Crashed Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile And The U.S. Might Be Too
Recovering the wreck could give the Kremlin additional information to inform future tests and would keep the design out of foreign hands.