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Army

DIU Solicits For Nuclear Power Plants; Army Selects Sites For Potential Deployments

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 18th, 2025

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Rendering of a nuclear microreactor. Photo: Idaho National Laboratory

The Army and Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) are requesting bids to provide nuclear power plant energy solutions that would be demonstrated on a military installation within the U.S. by 2030. The goal of the Janus program is to develop prototype Microreactor Power Plants (MPPs) to provide power to “installations and non-permanent operations” to help the Defense Department reduce its reliance on aging civilian infrastructure and meet increasing energy demand from the use of advanced technologies, DIU said on Tuesday. The…

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