BWX Technologies CEO says Fort Campbell is first in line for a rail-shippable 22-megawatt microreactor

BWX Technologies said Fort Campbell is the first US Army installation slated to receive its proposed nuclear microreactor under the Janus programme. The factory-built design is intended for transport by rail. The reactor is rated at 75 megawatts thermal, with a planned electrical output of 22 megawatts. It uses TRISO fuel that BWXT plans to produce in Lynchburg, Virginia. BWXT and its partners are still determining project costs, delivery arrangements and how the plant would be operated, while the wider Army initiative is evaluating reactors of different sizes at multiple installations.