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THE ARMY'S 500 MEGAWATT NUCLEAR CAP MATCHES THE EXACT BOOSTED OUTPUT OF A REACTOR ALREADY UNDER NRC-APPROVED CONSTRUCTION · The RFP caps nuclear proposals at 500 megawatts per unit across all seven eligible sites, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Fort Detrick, Fort Drum, Letterkenny Army Depot, Picatinny Arsenal, Tobyhanna Army Depot, and West Point, with the winning facility selling power to the commercial grid during normal operations and islanding to back up the installation only during outages longer than four hours. · That ceiling sits far above the Army's separate Janus Program, which caps its commercially owned microreactors at 20 megawatts and is built to run them on a private wire that never connects to the commercial grid. · A 500 megawatt limit lines up almost exactly with TerraPower's Natrium design, a 345 megawatt sodium fast reactor whose molten salt storage can boost output to 500 megawatts on demand and which already holds an NRC construction permit, and sits just above GE Vernova Hitachi's 300 megawatt BWRX-300, now under active NRC construction permit review for a Tennessee Valley Authority plant. · Tobyhanna's available parcel runs 15.32 acres on a former Wherry housing site outside the installation's main gates, while West Point's largest available tract, the undeveloped Morgan Farm, runs 262 acres, roughly a 17x footprint difference between just these two of the seven sites. OE READ: A 50-year lease term and a pre-Lease diligence period mean an earlier-stage developer isn't barred from bidding, this is a proposal competition, not a readiness gate. What does carry weight is the EUL's own enforcement structure, the sample lease lets the Army terminate if a lessee fails to commence development on schedule or fails to proceed with reasonable diligence afterward, language that turns a slow licensing timeline into a risk of losing the lease, not a barrier to winning it. Natrium, BWRX-300, and Holtec's SMR-300 simply carry the least of that risk going in, since their NRC paper trail already exists. Does a 50-year lease with built-in milestone deadlines and termination rights for lack of diligence actually level the field for earlier-stage SMR designs, or does it just move the risk from winning the bid to keeping the lease? $GEV