Photo Courtesy of U.S. Department of Agriculture Joint Base San Antonio–Randolph as seen at night in San Antonio, Texas. The base is one of four installations that make up JBSA, which is under consideration to host a prototype nuclear microreactor as part of a new federal partnership. Joint Base San Antonio, the U.S. Defense Dept.'s largest joint installation, is in line to host a prototype nuclear microreactor under a new federal pairing that would put commercial atomic power on Texas soil for the first time. The Dept. of the Air Force and the Defense Innovation Unit selected Antares to propose deploying its R1 microreactor at the base under the Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations program. Under the initiative, Antares would be responsible for siting, licensing, constructing, operating and decommissioning reactors at the base. They are targeted to be online by 2029 or sooner. According to the U.S.…