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I came across this project in a 1968 United States Atomic Energy Commission booklet, The ATOM and the OCEAN, by E. W. Seabrook Hull (can be found on Project Gutenberg here).
The National Science Foundation had proposed an Arctic Drift Barge for Arctic research, which would have a nuclear plant for electricity generation and heating, for completion during the 1970s. The idea is similar to the Soviet's NP-series of drifting ice stations but as a single self-contained vessel. Attached is the artist's impression of POP-1, one of the three designs proposed.
The National Science Foundation had proposed an Arctic Drift Barge for Arctic research, which would have a nuclear plant for electricity generation and heating, for completion during the 1970s. The idea is similar to the Soviet's NP-series of drifting ice stations but as a single self-contained vessel. Attached is the artist's impression of POP-1, one of the three designs proposed.
