Editing Fort Greely, Alaska (section)

===Army Nuclear Power Program===
Because of its remote location, Fort Greely was chosen as one of the first US military posts to have a compact, nuclear power reactor to generate heat and electricity,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.akaction.org/Publications/Military_Waste_in_Alaska/Fort_Greely_report_May_2000.pdf |format=pdf |title=Nuclear-Weapons-Free America |accessdate=June 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813073007/http://www.akaction.org/Publications/Military_Waste_in_Alaska/Fort_Greely_report_May_2000.pdf |archive-date=August 13, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> under the auspices of the [[Army Nuclear Power Program]]. A nuclear power plant, designated the '''SM-1A''' was flown in and installed between 1960–62, and was based on the Army's first prototype reactor, the [[SM-1]] at [[Fort Belvoir]], Virginia. SM-1A pressurized-water reactor reached initial criticality on March 13, 1962, and was shut down in 1972: the reactor core was removed and sent to the Savannah River nuclear site.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Federation of American Scientists|title=Highly Enriched Uranium - Appendix D: Military Reactors|url=http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/doe/heu/appd.pdf |format=PDF|page= 147|accessdate= March 10, 2012}}</ref>