Antares Nuclear, Inc. recently announced that it has been awarded an Other Transactions Authority agreement under the U.S. Army’s Janus Program. The U.S. Army and Defense Innovation Unit selected Antares to own, construct and operate nuclear microreactor power at Fort Bragg, N.C., in support of the Army’s energy resilience mission.
“Antares exists to solve a problem, and that problem is that energy scarcity is constraining America’s most critical defense systems…it’s really through the Army’s Janus Program that Antares is going to deliver clean, firm, resilient power to the warfighter. And we couldn’t be more excited about doing it at Fort Bragg,” said Antares Head of Federal Strategy and Policy Tom Mancinelli.
The Army, the Defense Innovation Unit and a panel of nuclear experts drawn from the Department of Energy, the national laboratories and across the Services selected Antares after rigorous technical due diligence. Evaluated against the field of competing designs, Antares’ TRISO-fueled, factory-produced microreactor emerged as one of the most mature and deployment-ready solutions…