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It surprises me that an article like this doesn't mention the Army Nuclear Power Program reactors like the truck-mounted, nitrogen-cooled military microreactor,
by acidburnNSA 7y ago
It surprises me that an article like this doesn't mention the Army Nuclear Power Program reactors like the truck-mounted, nitrogen-cooled military microreactor, the Mobile Low power-1 (ML-1) [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML-1
Or the Portable Medium power reactor (PM-3A) that ran McMurdo station in antarctica for nearly a decade [2].
[2] http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/
Or the PM-2A reactor that powered a US military ice base in Greenland [3]
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTPCXB6Oc1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTPCXB6Oc1E
I guess I should just write up something of my own instead of complaining.
- rurban 7y agoI'm also missing the real tiny ones, such as the one on Galileo or Cassini, deep space exploration spacecrafts. They are called RTG, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge... But they also had real ones, like the SNAP-10A.