Air Force officials announced last year that they’d selected Eielson as the site of a pilot project that would prove the viability of small-scale nuclear power plants at military installations.
Two F-35s, with an F-16 parked in the middle, at Eielson Air Force Base on April 21, 2020.
“This is really about energy resilience,” said Mark Correll, a former Air Force deputy assistant secretary for environment, safety and infrastructure.’s capability to provide power in case the base’s main source of electricity — a 70-year-old, 15-megawatt coal-fired heat and power plant — goes offline.
“Eielson relies on a coal plant with oil backup in a very critical area of the country,” he said in an interview Monday.
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