Two-year reactor design competition kicked off in March 2020 – Final down-select design decision will be made in Spring 2022 • Pele reactor fabrication will begin in the latter half of 2022 – Targeting delivery of a prototype reactor to Idaho National Laboratory in mid2024-

Project Pele is a project of the US Department of Defense to build a deployable nuclear power reactor [1] for use in United States Armed Forces remote operating bases. In 2020 the project was listed as relevant to lunar and Mars missions.

2022年6月9日 · The Project Pele full-scale transportable microreactor prototype will be completed and delivered in 2024 for testing at the Idaho National Laboratory.

The project's objective is to design, build, and demonstrate a prototype mobile nuclear reactor within five years, following the DSB study recommendations. This effort will leverage state-of-the-art technologies and recent advances in nuclear engineering to …

2024年9月25日 · Project Pele, developed under a DOD Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) initiative, aims to build and demonstrate a high-temperature gas-cooled (HTGR) mobile microreactor manufactured by...

2023年9月13日 · As part of the Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) initiative Project Pele, the Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded a contract option to X-energy, LLC of Rockville, Maryland in order to...

Project Pele is a prototype demonstration of an inherently safe mobile nuclear reactor – Tristructural Isotropic (TRISO) fuel is a transformational technology which

2022年4月13日 · The Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) released a Record of Decision (ROD) for Project Pele, a program intended to design, build, and demonstrate a mobile microreactor.

Project Pele aims to construct and demonstrate a mobile microreactor that produces 1 to 5 megawatts-electric (MWe) on the CITRC electrical test grid. Prior to testing, the microreactor will be fueled at the Transient Reactor Test Facility, shipped to one of the CITRC pads, and then assembled, tested, and operated.

2024年9月19日 · The US Department of Defense has broken ground at Idaho National Laboratory for the Project Pele prototype mobile microreactor. It will become the USA's first electricity-generating Generation IV reactor as early as 2026.