Nuclear reactors at March base head for Utah in a first-of-its-kind airlift

March Air Reserve Base was used to transport unfueled nuclear reactors from Southern California to northern Utah in the first airlift of its kind on Sunday morning, Feb. 15.

The flight advances President Trump’s goals for nuclear energy, which include rapidly building reactors to power artificial intelligence data centers for defense, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

The six nuclear modules were supplied by El Segundo-based Valar Atomics, a nuclear energy startup, which...