This Day in Alaska History-November 9th, 1929
Murkowski Welcomes Eielson AFB Announcement on Microreactor Pilot Program
Washington, DC – Thursday, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) welcomed the United States Department of the Air Force’s (DAF) Notice of Intent to Award the microreactor pilot project at Eielson Air Force Base (AFB). This announcement clears the way for the DAF and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to prepare an environmental analysis. Microreactors are small nuclear reactors […]
This Day in Alaska History-February 21st, 1924
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Detachment 1 stands rescue alert at Eielson Air Force Base
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON — Suspended in her parachute harness, an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot descended toward the frigid Interior Alaska landscape. In the dead of winter, the temperature plummeted to 35 degrees below zero and cast a blanket of ice fog obscuring the ground. Though the pilot is trained and equipped to survive for a short […]