Editing Galena, Alaska (section)

==Transportation, utilities and other facilities==
Galena's [[Edward G. Pitka Sr. Airport]] (Code GAL) is the former Galena Air Force Station field and with a paved runway of over 8000 feet is the largest public, state-maintained airport in the Interior of Alaska.{{Clarify|date=September 2012|reason="The Interior of Alaska" covers a lot of ground, no pun intended. I don't think this airport is as large as Fairbanks International.}} The control tower was demolished when the Air Force vacated the facility in 2007. The Airport is also the home of the "Yukon Squadron" of the AK Wing, Civil Air Patrol (CAP), which covers much of lp the interior region to the Bering Sea for Search and Rescue (SAR). A CAP Cessna-172 aircraft is stationed at Galena.

Heavy durable goods, such as oil, vehicles and building materials are transported by river [[barge]] in the summer.<ref>+[http://www.inlandbarge.com/styled-3/index.html Communities we serve]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.crowley.com/What-We-Do/Alaska-Fuel-Sales-and-Distribution/Cargo-Delivery-by-Barge |title=Cargo Delivery by Barge |access-date=November 6, 2016 |archive-date=November 26, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161126055146/http://www.crowley.com/What-We-Do/Alaska-Fuel-Sales-and-Distribution/Cargo-Delivery-by-Barge |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The City of Galena, as a first-class city, operates various vital services such as water and sewer.{{citation needed|date=January 2012}} The city also owns Nollner Health Clinic operated by [[Tanana Chiefs Conference]], a Native health clinic that offers 24-hour emergency care and routine health care. Eye and dental services are provided to residents on a visiting provider basis. Medical emergencies are stabilized at Nollner Clinic and flown by air ambulance to Fairbanks or Anchorage. Dire pediatric emergencies are flown to Seattle Children's Hospital.

Public radio station [[KIYU-FM]], based in Galena, serves the city.

===Energy===
{{further|Galena Nuclear Power Plant}}
Galena's remote location, apart from Alaska's urban transportation and utility distribution networks, means that the city must transport and store fuel oil in large-volume quantities. In 2004, the Galena City Council tentatively accepted a proposal from [[Toshiba|Toshiba Corporation]] to build the Galena Nuclear Power Plant, a small, self-contained [[nuclear power plant]]. In 2010, the plan was abandoned after local start-up costs to build a $27 million reactor core proved prohibitive for the community.<ref>{{cite journal| url = http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0330/Nuclear-power-Obama-team-touts-mini-nukes-to-fight-global-warming| title = Nuclear power: Obama team touts mini-nukes to fight global warming - CSMonitor.com| journal = [[The Christian Science Monitor]]| date = March 30, 2010}}</ref> The demonstration plant, the prototype for a line which Toshiba hoped to sell to similar communities in the U.S. and Canada, would have been the first civilian nuclear plant in Alaska; [[Fort Greely, Alaska]],{{citation needed|date=December 2012}}
had a small military SM-4 reactor until the early 1970s.<ref>Buske, Norman, Pamela Miller & Lorraine Eckstein, "The Nuclear Reactor at Fort Greely." (Anchorage: Alaska Community Action on Toxins, 2000)</ref> There is currently an attempt at a movement towards solar power for Galena, which would reduce energy costs.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 9, 2023 |title=Galena hopes solar energy will reduce cost of generating power |url=https://fm.kuac.org/energy-and-environment/2023-08-08/galena-hopes-solar-energy-will-reduce-cost-of-generating-power |access-date=December 5, 2023 |website=KUAC.org |language=en}}</ref>