A remote Air Force base in Alaska has been selected to be the first U.S. military installation with a nuclear microreactor under a Defense Department pilot project.

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE — When warming temperatures melted the frozen ground under the munitions repair facility here years ago, the foundation shifted, causing deep cracks to spread across the ...

The Air Force announced its intent recently to award a contract for a small nuclear reactor at a base in Alaska pending approval of the plan by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The contract went ...

RAF Ascension Island is jointly operated by the UK's Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Space Force (USSF). Featuring an airfield humorously named 'Wideawake Airfield' after a colony of loud ...

The US Air Force is installing a nuclear micro-reactor at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. Scheduled to go into operation by 2027, the commercially-owned pilot plant could lead to next-gen micro ...

Air Force generals have long described Red Flag exercises in Alaska and Nevada as complementary, with Eielson offering more airspace and Nellis being closer to other U.S. bases and having more ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Active duty members of the U.S. Air Force are set to help drive school buses for students at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage as the school district works to ...

EIELSON AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska –– When warming temperatures melted the frozen ground under the munitions repair facility here years ago, the foundation shifted, causing deep cracks to spread ...

Service members from U.S. Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force listen to the Deployed Forces Commander, Col. Brian Cusson, to kick-off RED FLAG-Alaska 21-2 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A U.S. Air Force pilot was reported to be safe after a single-seat F-35 fighter jet crashed Tuesday during a training exercise at a base in Alaska.

Staff Sgt. Charles Crumlett, seen here in 2018, died March 15, 2024, in a workplace accident at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (Airman 1st Class Kenneth Boyton/Air Force) ...

If the pilot project planned at Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks proves the microreactors have value, additional models could be added to more bases in the future.