Janus: The Army’s Second Attempt at Fielding Microreactors

Podcast: Decouple · Dr. Chris Keefer

Opublikowano: 2025-12-18

In this episode of Decouple, Dr. Jeff Waksman, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Energy and Environment, explains how the U.S. Army is making a second attempt at making microreactors great again. The discussion situates the Janus microreactor program in the long history of the Army Nuclear Power Program and Project Pele, highlighting why earlier small reactor deployments failed to compete with diesel and grid power even in extreme environments, and why Janus represents a fundamentally different approach. Janus is best understood as an attempt to apply the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services model...