PENTAGON TO BUILD NUCLEAR MICROREACTORS TO POWER FAR-FLUNG BASES / UK gets approval to develop mini reactors by Rolls Royce.

Something like this.

they dug up some radioactive leftover material

The Russians have had this for 50 years….

Pentagon is going to become its own breakaway civilization. Robots, clone armies, etc.

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Not surprising.

What is the USA doing? This is related to the topic.

I found this interesting write up from DARPA.

DARPA’s Prepare program

Dialing Up the Body’s Defenses Against Public Health and National Security Threats [link to www.darpa.mil (secure)]

PREPARE aims to develop new class of generalizable medical countermeasures that safely and temporarily tune activity of protective genes

Protection against many common pathogens and environmental stressors is written into our DNA. Our skin responds to sun exposure. Our immune system mounts defenses when we get the flu. Our bodies inherently work to mitigate the potential for harm caused by these health threats. However, these intrinsic responses are not always quick, robust, or appropriate enough to adequately defend us from harm, which is why many people experience sunburn after intense sun exposure or suffer severe symptoms, even death, following exposure to the flu.

Military service members, first responders, and civilian populations face threats far more severe than sunburn and respiratory infections. Pathogens with pandemic potential, toxic chemicals, and radioactive materials can all quickly and powerfully overwhelm the body’s innate defenses. And though significant public and private investment has been focused on the development of traditional medical countermeasures such as drugs, vaccines, and biologics to guard against the worst effects of these health threats, current countermeasures are often limited in their effectiveness and availability during emergencies.

DARPA is looking to make gains beyond the status quo. Inspired by recent advances in understanding of when and how genes express their traits, DARPA’s new PReemptive Expression of Protective Alleles and Response Elements (PREPARE) program will explore ways to better protect against biological, chemical, or radiological threats by temporarily and reversibly tuning gene expression to bolster the body’s defenses against – or directly neutralize – a given threat.

“The human body is amazingly resilient. Every one of our cells already contains genes that encode for some level of resistance to specific health threats, but those built-in defenses can’t always express quickly or robustly enough to be effective,” said Renee Wegrzyn, the PREPARE program manager. “PREPARE will study how to support this innate resistance by giving it a temporary boost, either before or after exposure, without any permanent edits to the genome.”

The program will focus on four key health challenges as proofs of concept for what DARPA ultimately envisions as a generalizable platform that can be rapidly adapted to emerging public health and national security threats: influenza viral infection, opioid overdose, organophosphate poisoning, and exposure to gamma radiation.

“Each of these four threats are major health concerns that would benefit from disruptive approaches,” Wegrzyn said. “Seasonal flu vaccines, for example, are limited in that they try to hit a perpetually moving target, so circulating flu strains are often mismatched to vaccine strains. Programmable modulation of common viral genome sequences could potentially neutralize many more circulating viral strains simultaneously to keep up with moving targets. Combining this strategy with a temporary boost to host protection genes could change how we think about anti-virals.” [@50%] [link to www.darpa.mil (secure)]

Don't want to power a small town. Just my residence.

They would never let us plebs have this. No more massive taxes hidden inside out utility bills.

Last Edited by LJS on 04/19/2022 01:23 PM

Probably because govts turned it into a defense technology.

I want one for my shelter.

I won't lie, it would be nice to have that kind of energy freedom, but you are correct. None for us, we just get to fund it endlessly without reaping any real benefit other than being glorified guinea pigs as unwitting test subjects.

Stargate tech mainstream.

Elon is building them in the UK...

"A US energy developer backed by a fund linked to Elon Musk is in talks with the Government to build a fleet of small nuclear reactors across the UK.

Last Energy wants to build its first “mini-nuclear” power plant by 2025 and is in advanced talks over sites in England and Wales.

The company intends to spend £1.4bn on 10 reactors by the end of the decade. Last Energy’s end goal is to build “hundreds of plants” across the UK, sources close to the company said."

Buy a used submarine or aircraft carrier...nuclear powered

They use them to run ghost pipelines. Then they steal the oil.

A move in the right direction. I hope one day these can be fueled at the factory for a 50 year duty cycle with zero maintenance and solid state in construction for individual homes and generate 80Kw per home. Hopefully a hybrid design to use thorium as uranium is a scarcity finite material.

This is just declass. Theyve been in use.

No god no, If brits build shit there will be mushroom clouds all over the place.

NO, stupid brits No!! They dont even build their own power plants, The French do it for them, to avoid British engineers fk ups from destroying the world

THIS IS A BAD IDEA!

Your concern is baseless and without any merit.
As i stated. Theyve been in use for years.

These are already built and will be deployed when the grid is turned off.

A family member is a fine machinist, been on this design program for some years, these have been in development for quite a while.
Some models are self contained and fit on the back of a normal lorry.

Yea, a thorium salt version would be an excellent device.
Just got to overcome the corrosive aspect of the this fuel, and it’s be a leap forward

Is that the Rolls-Royce that lost contact with their jet engines on that missing jet?

Maybe not good choice, can't afford to lose reactors too!

Not the first time for the pentagon.

They had tiny reactors back in the 1950s, called snap generators. They, also, had larger versions of these systems for various requirements.

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The question we all need to be asking is what are these for now?

The new space command?

DUMBs?

Outfitting manned missions to mars?

Strategic mobile operations for war?

Far flung bases indeed.

Where......Here on Earth, or out of this world?

Look.....it takes semi-conductors, computer components and all sort of stuff for the space race or to outfit DUMB'S including massive preserved food sources and water, etc....

Supply and demand.

How are they going to get such massive quantities in the shortest time for these things? The production capacity isn't there. So....it means shortages for EVERYTHING as they proceed to skim 20% - 40% of it off the top. That is in addition to fueling the war machines already going on.

Maybe I am thinking big. Seeing past all of the hype and seeing things for what they really are or maybe I am just over hyping things.

With that thought in mind.....look at recent history. It tells us the timing they have for some of those things. It shows us the plans for them and expected time of completion.

Do you not think that they are not attempting to carry those plans through? The cost is staggering. The resources also.

You don't think they just gave up on them do you?

Things to consider.