The S1W reactor was the first prototype naval reactor used by the United States Navy to prove that the technology could be used for electricity generation...
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later became part of the hip hop music group Public Enemy S1W reactor, a type of naval reactor used by the United States Navy This disambiguation page lists...
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the S1W reactor vessel and core at the S1W prototype facility. Even though operating an S5W reactor core, the facility continued to be called S1W. To...
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previously INEL). USS Nautilus was powered by the S2W reactor, and crew were trained on the land-based S1W reactor at INL. The second nuclear submarine was USS Seawolf...
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submarine, USS Nautilus, was put to sea in January 1954. The S1W reactor was a Pressurized Water Reactor. This design was chosen because it was simpler, more...
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reactors. This nuclear reactor is the shipboard equivalent of the prototype S1W reactor, with minor design changes, that was installed on USS Nautilus. As installed...
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site S1W reactor land-based prototype for USS Nautilus (SSN-571); located at Naval Reactors Facility S2C reactor USS Tullibee (SSN-597) S2G reactor USS Seawolf (SSN-575)...
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submarine, USS Nautilus, was put to sea in January 1954. The S1W reactor was a pressurized water reactor. This design was chosen because it was simpler, more...
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the S1W and S2W pressurized water reactors, conceived for the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), had demonstrated their superior reliability. The S1G reactor facility...
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nuclear reactor in a form-factor that would fit into a submarine hull with no more than a 28-foot (8.5 m) beam. This became known as the S1W reactor. Nautilus...
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Energy-Naval Reactors facility where three nuclear propulsion prototypes A1W, S1W and S5G were located. It is contractor-operated for the government by Fluor...
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Idaho National Laboratory (redirect from National Reactor Testing Station)
very first full-scale prototype nuclear plant for shipboard use, called S1W Prototype, was constructed to test the feasibility of using nuclear power...
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1950 - S1W reactor prototype construction started June 1952 - President Truman lays Nautilus keel March 1953 - Prototype initial critical reactor operation...
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fission-based nuclear research reactors in the world, sorted by country, with operational status. Some "research" reactors were built for the purpose of...
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nuclear power plant operations with three nuclear propulsion prototypes — A1W, S1W, and S5G. From 1959 until 1993, over 14,000 Naval operators were trained...
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Nuclear submarine (section Reactor accidents)
serious nuclear and radiation accidents, but American naval reactors starting with the S1W and iterations of designs have operated without incident since...
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from 1953 to the mid-1990s which was for the USS Nautilus (SSN-571), named S1W, the prototype for the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), named A1W, and S5G, which...
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the Argonne National Laboratory in 1953 at S1W at the Naval Reactors Facility, part of the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho. Nautilus ship's patch...
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capability. Furthermore, although the S5W reactor was thirty percent bigger than the S1W plant on Nautilus, the reactor compartment on Skipjack occupied but...
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