Pentagon and DOE launch a historic initiative for next-gen nuclear reactors at military bases, enhancing energy independence ...
On February 15, 2026, the U.S. military flew a compact nuclear reactor aboard C-17 cargo aircraft from California to Utah, in what officials and The Wall Street Journal described as the first airlift ...
New compact reactor concepts are reviving discussions about nuclear-powered aircraft. Engineers are exploring whether smaller fusion or advanced reactor systems could one day provide long-duration ...
The reactor involved was Ward 250, which belongs to a new class of compact microreactors.
C-17 Globemaster III transports lifted off from March Air Reserve Base this weekend carrying something no Globemaster had ever hauled before: the core components of a next-generation micro nuclear ...
The reactor is expected to begin Eight modules of the Ward 250 microreactor were transported aboard three C-17 Globemaster ...