Fort Greely, Alaska

Fort Greely is a census-designated place (CDP) in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States.

[2] Fort Greely is located 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Delta Junction on the Richardson Highway.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 169.7 square miles (440 km2).

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,[3] 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.

[4] Fort Greely first appeared as an unincorporated military installation on the 1970 U.S. Census.

Fort Greely is mostly sunny in the summer and split between clear and overcast days in the winter.

A Ground-Based Interceptor , designed to destroy incoming Intercontinental ballistic missiles , is lowered into its silo at the missile defense complex at Fort Greely , Alaska, July 22, 2004.
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area map