 In 2010, the plan was abandoned after local start-up costs to build a $27 million reactor core proved prohibitive for the community.The demonstration plant, the prototype for a line which Toshiba hoped to sell to similar communities in the U.S. and Canada, would have been the first civilian nuclear plant in Alaska; Fort Greely, Alaska,
had a small military SM-4 reactor until the early 1970s.The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race goes through Galena (on even years), as does the Tesoro Iron Dog trans-Alaska snowmobile race.