Trump Military Goes All-In For Micro-Nuke-Reactor Power
The United States Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) under President Trump just issued 8 demonstration grants for the competitive development of Micro-Nuke-Reactors with a goal of internally powering all of the U.S. Army and Air Force’s global military bases.
America pretends to have a global network of only 128 Air Force and Army bases, but the real number is over 800 militaryfacilities in more than 70 countries. That compares to a combined global base networks for Britain, France and Russia at just 30.
Founding father and first President George Washington issued The Proclamation of Neutrality on April 22, 1793, to declare the United States neutral in the conflict between France and Great Britain. America may have preferred profiting from trade, but as President Teddy Rosevelt cleverly said, the best foreign policy trick to stay out of war was to: “Speak softly, and carry a big stick.”
That strategy fell apart after WW II when the Soviet Union basically led one third of the planet to adopt various levels of dictatorial communism. With the rest of our allies operating in survival mode, the U.S. took over all of Britain and France’s military bases.
Most of those U.S. bases have always been powered by the local utility grid, with diesel generators as short term back-ups. As a result, foreign US military bases are extremely vulnerable to third-world intermittent electricity generation and naval blockades.
President Trump understands that the military of the future will massively rely on artificial intelligence and robots, which will be useless without uninterruptable power supplies. Unwilling to wait for decades to design and then deploy the new micro-reactors, the Trump Defense Innovation Unit (DIU)headquartered in Silicon Valley awarded eight different companies with demonstration contracts including:
▪ Antares Nuclear, Inc
▪ BWXT Advanced Technologies LLC
▪ General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems
▪ Kairos Power, LLC
▪ Oklo Inc.
▪ Radiant Industries Incorporated
▪ Westinghouse Government Services
▪ X-Energy, LLC
To co-strengthen the domestic U.S. economy, the contracting firms are now each “eligible” to receive contracts to design, license, build, and operate “commercially available dual use microreactor technology” on one or more U.S. military installation.
Traditional defense contractors are complaining that Trump funding an eight-company-competition is chaos. The Trump Silicon Valley team are call it creative destruction.