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The US Army tried portable nuclear power at remote bases 60 years ago – it didn't go well

  • Written by Paul Bierman, Fellow of the Gund Institute for Environment, Professor of Natural Resources, University of Vermont
imagePart of a portable nuclear power plant arrives at Camp Century in 1960.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

In a tunnel 40 feet beneath the surface of the Greenland ice sheet, a Geiger counter screamed. It was 1964, the height of the Cold War. U.S. soldiers in the tunnel, 800 miles from the North Pole, were dismantling the Army’s first portable...

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