Greater Energy Security

WATCH: @SecretaryWright delivers remarks ahead of first ever transport of a nuclear reactor by plane 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/a2svEaXBUz

— U.S. Department of Energy (@ENERGY) February 15, 2026

On May 23, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to deploy advanced nuclear reactor technologies for national security purposes.

Yesterday, we took the next step toward achieving this historic mission. pic.twitter.com/hIEd1nlnmf

— Department of War 🇺🇸 (@DeptofWar) February 16, 2026

War, Energy Departments Team Up to Advance Future of Nuclear Power, Military Base Energy Security

The Ward 250 is a 5 megawatt nuclear reactor that fits into the back of a C-17 aircraft could theoretically power about 5,000 homes.

For military use, such a reactor could provide energy security on a military base ensuring the mission there need not depend on the civilian power grid, and in military operations overseas, such reactors would mean U.S. forces could operate without concern that an enemy might cut fuel supplies.

A reactor such as the Ward 250 also means greater energy security for the entire United States. It is firmly in line with President Donald J. Trump's executive orders to reshape and modernize America's nuclear energy landscape.

The president signed four executive orders designed to advance America's nuclear energy posture, May 23, 2025.