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Old 11-21-2008 | 10:49 AM
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Alaska might be the perfect proving ground for technology like this due to the remote nature of the reactor sites.

A part of the operation that I fly for has DC6s and C46s with fuel tanks for flying fuel to villages. McGrath Alaska didn't receive their end of season fuel barge due to an early freeze up (global cooling aka winter) and now they must have all the fuel that would have come on the barge flown in. The figure I heard was 300,000 gallons at about 5000 gallons a trip in a DC6, that's a huge expense. I'm not sure on the exact price of fuel delivered but if its say $7.00 a gallon that's $2.1 million that has to be absorbed by a village of less than 500. McGrath, Alaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The trickle effect of village fuel costs is already impacting Anchorage due to increases in school enrollment and demand of services for low income families that have moved in from the bush. It will be interesting to see how many villages become only seasonal fishing and mining camps.
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