Pentagon developing mobile nuclear reactors

Pentagon has issued 3 contracts to three companies to start designing mobile, small nuclear reactors initiating a 2-step plan to deliver nuclear power for American forces at home and abroad. It will be a two-year engineering design competition for a small nuclear microreactor that will be deployed with forces outside the US. The combined $39.7 million in contracts will make a 1-5 megawatt power-ranged prototype.