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Are you sure it wasn’t a navy reactor? The VA says it was operated by the navy. It sounds like the Antarctic design deserves some ridicule. https://www.public

Are you sure it wasn’t a navy reactor? The VA says it was operated by the navy. It sounds like the Antarctic design deserves some ridicule. https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/radiation/sources/mcmurdo-antarctica.asp https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/radiation/sources/... Edit: A history of the plant: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2014/ph241/reid2/ It was an army plant, the reactor is listed here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program

throwaway4aday 4y ago
In that case the original commenter was wrong calling it a Navy reactor.
- jodrellblank 4y ago
  My comment link has a link to[1]: which is the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists saying "The Navy shuts down and dismantles a nuclear reactor in Antarctica", "Sometime soon the US Navy will have to find some place to quietly dispose of [...] by-product of 10 years of operating a small military power reactor in Antarctica", "The Navy considered nuclear power particularly suitable for the inland bases, where oil fuel was being flown in over such long distances[...]", "all the electricity for the 1,000 men stationed at the Navy's McMurdo Sound". McMurdo station[2] "built by the US Navy Seabees". Army Nuclear Power Program on Wikipedia[3] "PM-3A: 1.75 MW electric, plus heating and desalinization. McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Owned by the Navy." [1] https://books.google.se/books?id=wwoAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA32&ots=VkjNgAvyhE&dq=PM-3A+Nukey+Poo&pg=PA32&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.se/books?id=wwoAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA32&ots=V... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program
  - throwaway4aday 4y ago
    > The US Navy made a nuclear reactor Still wrong, made != owned
    - jodrellblank 4y ago
      If you want to make a shitty throwaway account to just post "wrong wrong wrong" and ignore citations and evidence, can you do it somewhere else? Change "Navy made a nuclear reactor" to "Navy comissioned, owned, operated, bungled, mismanaged, wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on, a nuclear reactor". Happy?
jodrellblank 4y ago
It's listed there ... as "owned by the Navy" and "The PM-3A was not operated by the Army, but was under the NAVFAC (Naval Facilities Engineering Command), the shore-based power division of the US Navy."

throwaway4aday 4y ago

In that case the original commenter was wrong calling it a Navy reactor.

jodrellblank 4y ago
My comment link has a link to[1]: which is the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists saying "The Navy shuts down and dismantles a nuclear reactor in Antarctica", "Sometime soon the US Navy will have to find some place to quietly dispose of [...] by-product of 10 years of operating a small military power reactor in Antarctica", "The Navy considered nuclear power particularly suitable for the inland bases, where oil fuel was being flown in over such long distances[...]", "all the electricity for the 1,000 men stationed at the Navy's McMurdo Sound". McMurdo station[2] "built by the US Navy Seabees". Army Nuclear Power Program on Wikipedia[3] "PM-3A: 1.75 MW electric, plus heating and desalinization. McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Owned by the Navy." [1] https://books.google.se/books?id=wwoAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA32&ots=VkjNgAvyhE&dq=PM-3A+Nukey+Poo&pg=PA32&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.se/books?id=wwoAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA32&ots=V... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_Nuclear_Power_Program
- throwaway4aday 4y ago
  > The US Navy made a nuclear reactor Still wrong, made != owned
  - jodrellblank 4y ago
    If you want to make a shitty throwaway account to just post "wrong wrong wrong" and ignore citations and evidence, can you do it somewhere else? Change "Navy made a nuclear reactor" to "Navy comissioned, owned, operated, bungled, mismanaged, wasted millions of taxpayer dollars on, a nuclear reactor". Happy?

jodrellblank 4y ago

It's listed there ... as "owned by the Navy" and "The PM-3A was not operated by the Army, but was under the NAVFAC (Naval Facilities Engineering Command), the shore-based power division of the US Navy."