US military airlifts small reactor as Trump pushes to quickly deploy nuclear power
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright, center, and Under Secretary of Defense Michael Duffey, left, listen as Isaiah Taylor, CEO of Valar Atomics, discusses a microreactor developed by Valar to generate nuclear power for the military and commercial customers, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, in-flight, on board a C-17. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)Energy Secretary Chris Wright speaks at a news conference at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., Sunday Feb. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)A Valar Atomics microreactor is seen on a C-17 aircraft, without nuclear fuel, at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. The reactor was transported from March Air Reserve Base to Hill Air Force Base in Utah. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)Isaiah Taylor, CEO of Valar Atomics, left, speaks as Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, center, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright, listen, at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)Energy Secretary Chris Wright, center, tours a C-17 military aircraft as a microreactor was transported from March Air Reserve Base, Calif., to Hill Air Force Base in Utah, Sunday ,Feb. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)Energy Secretary Chris Wright, right, speaks as Utah Gov. Spencer Cox listens, following a news conference at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Wright and other officials were onboard as a Valar Atomics microreactor, without nuclear fuel, was transported from March Air Reserve Base in California to Hill Air Force Base. Cox met the plane in Utah. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)
Energy Secretary Chris Wright, center, and Under Secretary of Defense Michael Duffey, left, listen as Isaiah Taylor, CEO of Valar Atomics, discusses a microreactor developed by Valar to generate nuclear power for the military and commercial customers, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026, in-flight, on board a C-17. (AP Photo/Matthew Daly)