The Army's decision at Fort Wainwright comes after Air Force officials announced last year that they’ll begin building a small nuclear microreactor in 2025 at Eielson Air Force Base.
building a $687 million replacement coal plant and a $363 million facility that would run on either diesel or natural gas. But they opted instead for the $117 million distributed natural gas-fired boilers alternative. A fourth alternative would have allowed the old plant to continue operating.
“The U.S. Army Garrison Alaska has identified that third alternative as the preferred alternative,” says Jennifer Meyer, chief of Fort Wainwright Directorate of Public Works’ operations and maintenance division. Meyer says the Army can’t yet say much about the natural-gas system or the timeframe in which it’ll be built. But she says it’ll likely take a while.
The old heat and power plant has been in service 30 years beyond its average design life, and it’s become one of the Army’s most expensive to operate. Post officials say it’s broken down four times in recent years, and on one cold winter day in 2018 it was offline for several hours.
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