Talk:Army Nuclear Power Program
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I've removed the figures that gave the amount of heating produced because they seemed questionable.
My figures originally came from Adams Atomic Engines, but for example 107 Btu/hr for PM2A, according to this convertor is only 31.4 watts (that's not kW, it's watts). I don't know how this compares to 38,000 lb/hr heating quoted for SM-1A, a similar size station, but it compares very badly to 400kW quoted elsewhere for SL1, supposedly a smaller reactor.
So I've removed all the figures until they can be verified. Andrewa 03:32, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
- Comments:
- I'm not sure how closely the Naval Reactors office was involved with these designs. If Rickover couldn't control something, he didn't want to be responsible for it in any way; he had the clout (even with Presidents) to get his way about this sort of thing.
- My impression was that the Army had a reactor in Vietnam
- Here's some text from the United States Naval reactor article that probably better belongs here (except the Russian part):
- "Other small, easily field-deployed reactor designs have been developed but have no connection to the U.S. Naval Reactor program. A small reactor was used to supply power (1.5 MWe) and heating to McMurdo Station, a US Antarctic base, for ten years to 1972, testing the feasibility of such air-portable units for remote locations. Two others were installed in arctic locations, all constructed as part of the US Army Nuclear Power Program. A fourth mounted on a barge provided power and fresh water in the Panama Canal Zone. Russia is well advanced with plans to build a floating power plant for their far eastern territories. The design has two 35 MWe units based on the KLT-40 reactor used in icebreakers (with refueling every 4 years)."
- --A. B. (talk) 17:39, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
