America has money to waste? Schools closing, medicaid being cut, roads and bridges falling apart and we're building nuclear power stations in Afghanistan? Pentagon has too much money and doesn't know what to do with it!
Buried within Darpa’s 2012 budget request under the innocuous name of “Small Rugged Reactor Technologies” is a $10 million proposal to fuel wartime Forward Operating Bases with nuclear power. It springs from an admirable impulse: to reduce the need for troops or contractors to truck down roads littered with bombs to get power onto the base.
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