URL: https://www.indianz.com/News/archives/002108.asp

Tuesday, October 21, 2003

The Alaska Native village of Galena has been asked to host a small nuclear reactor, t he first of its kind in the United States.

Toshiba Corp. or Japan selected Galena as a test site for economic reasons. Gasoline in the village costs $3.35 a gallon and diesel-generated electricity costs twice as much as in other parts of the state.

Toshiba says the reactor could supply clean power to the village for 30 years.

Get the Story:
Village invited to test cheap, clean nuclear power (The Anchorage Daily News 10/21)
Username: indianz@indianz.com, Password: indianz

All stories in the Indianz.Com Archive are available for publishing under a Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)