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    Naval Reactors (NR), which administers the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, is an umbrella term for the U.S. government office that has comprehensive...
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    565222°N 119.519361°W / 46.565222; -119.519361 United States naval reactors are nuclear reactors used by the United States Navy aboard certain ships to generate...
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    The Naval Reactors Facility (NRF) is located 52 miles (84 km) northwest of Idaho Falls, Idaho. The NRF is a United States Department of Energy-Naval Reactors...
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    designs include generation IV, thermal-neutron reactors, fast-neutron reactors, molten salt, and gas-cooled reactor models. Commercial SMRs have been designed...
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    propulsion reactor produces no more than a few hundred megawatts. Some small modular reactors (SMR) are similar to marine propulsion reactors in capacity...
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  • States Naval reactors is a comprehensive list of all naval reactors designed, built, or used by the United States Navy. Each nuclear reactor design is...
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  • pressurized water reactors and a relatively few liquid metal fast reactors. OKBM Afrikantov has been the primary designer of naval reactors for the Soviet/Russian...
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    including reactors for nuclear submarines, nuclear-powered icebreakers, and the floating nuclear power plant project. It also designs fast breeder reactors. Nearly...
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  • of Reactor Development, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and then assumed control of the United States Navy's effort as Director of the Naval Reactors Branch...
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  • Propulsion community consists of Naval Officers and Enlisted members who are specially trained to run and maintain the nuclear reactors that power the submarines...
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    commands of: Naval Sea Systems Command, Naval Reactors, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, Naval History and Heritage Command, Navy Installations...
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    The A4W reactor is a naval reactor used by the United States Navy to propel warships and generate onboard electricity. The A4W designation stands for:...
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    Pressurized Reactor and the Franco-German European Pressurized Reactor. All the United States Naval reactors are of this type. Boiling water reactors (BWR)...
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    submarines, including serious nuclear and radiation accidents, but American naval reactors starting with the S1W and subsequent designs have operated without incident...
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    formerly operated two separate prototype nuclear reactors, trialling five different types of submarine reactor core. The site is located adjacent to the Dounreay...
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    other design differences have emerged between naval reactors and the usually much larger power station reactors. It is estimated that the thermal power output...
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  • small nuclear reactors List of cancelled nuclear reactors in Russia List of United States naval reactors List of cancelled nuclear reactors in the United...
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  • improved S2W reactor. The specific location within the vast Idaho National Laboratory where the S1W prototype was located was the Naval Reactors Facility...
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  • Modern aircraft carriers and submarines use nuclear reactors for power. See United States naval reactors for information on classification schemes and the...
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    Production of Highly Enriched Uranium for Naval Reactors" (PDF). The Nonproliferation Review: 89. "S9G Next Generation Reactor / High Energy Density Core". Global...
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    Hyman G. Rickover (category United States Naval Academy alumni)
    original development of naval nuclear propulsion and controlled its operations for three decades as director of the U.S. Naval Reactors office. In addition...
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  • (60 km/h). Both reactors would have been on-line to simultaneously provide maximum ship speed and plane launching capability. The reactors are pressurized...
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  • reactor List of nuclear reactors List of small nuclear reactor designs List of United States Naval reactors List of Soviet Naval reactors "Nuclear Power in...
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  • the U.S. Navy Training facilities for Naval Reactors and Nuclear Power schools Various field offices and the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program Headquarters...
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  • propulsion on warships. Like all operational U.S. naval reactors it was a pressurized water reactor (PWR) design. The A3W designation stands for: A =...
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  • loss-of-coolant accident. The S8G reactor is in use in Ohio-class submarines and has a power rating of 26.1 MW. "U.S. Naval Reactors". alternatewars.com. 2012...
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    researchers make nuclear power reactors safer and longer lasting. The Boiling Water Reactors (BORAX) experiments were five reactors built between 1953 and 1964...
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  • Rolls-Royce PWR (redirect from PWR2 reactor)
    submarine reactors, and remains so today. The Ministry of Defence's Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE), at Dounreay, tested each reactor core design...
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  • The S1G reactor is a naval reactor used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships. The S1G designation stands...
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  • with liquid metal cooled reactors. However the seven-member Alfa class were subsequently fitted with liquid metal cooled reactors. Its usage in the K-27...
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