The Air Force nuclear microreactor at Eielson
The Air Force intends to award Oklo a 30 year fixed price power purchase agreement for a microreactor delivering up to 5 megawatts to Eielson Air Force Base outside Fairbanks. Oklo would build, own and operate it, and the contract is signed only after Oklo obtains a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
How the public reaches this
Contract negotiation is private and the Air Force runs no comment period. The reactor cannot be built without a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license, and that review is the room where the public gets a formal say.
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2026-08-06 Tracked after a reader asked for it, and the reader's own figure did not survive the check. The Air Force program page for the pilot states the capacity, the 30 year power purchase agreement and the licensing condition, and it states no operational date at all. A December 31st, 2027 goal has circulated widely; that comes from the fiscal 2019 defense authorization, which directed that a licensed microreactor be operating on a Defense Department installation by 2027, and it is a statutory goal for the program rather than a commitment for this reactor. A deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force was separately reported hoping the reactor would run by 2030. So the honest position is that no operational date is published, and this entry will not carry one until the Air Force sets one. The notice of intent to award reinstated Oklo after an earlier award was rescinded following a bid protest.
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