S8 Ep110: PREVIEW Risks of Placing Small Modular Nuclear Reactors in Military Bases Henry Sokolski Henry Sokolski addressed the Pentagon's Janice program, which planned to deploy very small nuclear reactors on military bases. Major concerns included the need for ab
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🗓️ 22 November 2025
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Risks of Placing Small Modular Nuclear Reactors in Military Bases
Henry Sokolski
Henry Sokolski addressed the Pentagon's Janice program, which planned to deploy very small nuclear reactors on military bases. Major concerns included the need for absolutely perfect air defenses and the threat posed by drones. Because of these issues, the Army ultimately decided not to place the micro-reactors on any forward bases.
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchettcher, a conversation with colleague Henry Sikolsky of the Non-Proliferation Policy Education Center about Janus, a program at the Pentagon, to put small modular reactors, very small, nuclear reactors, and the front lines with Army units is a source of energy. And then, as they thought about it, maybe not the front lines, |
| 0:22.7 | maybe a little far back. What's wrong with the proposal? What's wrong with putting nuclear |
| 0:27.7 | reactors and bases in Afghanistan? Henry explains. Much more of this later. |
| 0:34.0 | Well, you got to have more positive opinion of our military that if they have the energy, |
| 0:38.6 | they would fight off all comers and they wouldn't have to worry about being overrun. |
| 0:42.8 | More important, you have to assume that our air defenses over these little bases would be absolutely perfect |
| 0:48.8 | and that the drones that were beginning to be used, even by the Afghanis, |
| 0:53.1 | and certainly now by everybody, |
| 0:55.2 | wouldn't be a problem. |
| 0:56.6 | They are. |
| 0:57.5 | I think the Army understands that. |
| 0:59.5 | That's the reason they did not pick any forward bases to put these microreactors on. |
| 1:06.5 | Wow. |
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