Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE), formerly HMS Vulcan, is a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) establishment in Scotland, operated by Rolls-Royce...
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Dounreay (redirect from Dounreay Materials Testing Reactor)
development of civil fast breeder reactors, and the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE), a military submarine reactor testing facility. Both these no...
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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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Defence naval nuclear reactor shore establishment at Dounreay between 1970 and 1981, when it was renamed the Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment. HMRC Vulcan...
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Article I of the NPT. Used reactor fuel is transported by rail from Devonport (and occasionally Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment, Dounreay) to British...
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Naval Armaments Depot and formally elements of Defence Equipment and Support. DM Beith RNAD Coulport DM Crombie DM Gosport Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment...
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Compressor Station GCHQ, Cheltenham St Fergus Gas Terminal Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment Albemarle Blandford Bovington Catterick Pirbright Harrogate...
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(Rolls-Royce Naval Marine) DSMP1 at VULCAN (Rolls-Royce Naval Marine) (shut down 1984) Prototype Fast Reactor (shut down 1994) Research and test reactors Under...
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List of air stations of the Royal Navy (category Royal Naval Air Stations)
This is a list of naval air stations of the Royal Navy. Naval air stations are shore establishments of the Fleet Air Arm (FAA), the branch of the Royal...
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Hawker Siddeley (section Test pilots)
Royal Navy in 1965. Vulcan – originated as the Avro Vulcan. Hawker Siddeley built the Vulcan during the early 1960s. The last Vulcan was delivered to the...
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Leningradsky Metallichesky Zavod (category 1857 establishments in the Russian Empire)
AG Vulcan Stettin. It contracted at the same time with Vulcan to build a shipyard as well as for licenses for Curtis-AEG-Vulcan turbines and Vulcan-Yarrow...
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United States Navy (redirect from U.S. Naval)
of need. The U.S. Navy was one of the first to install nuclear reactors aboard naval vessels. Today, nuclear energy powers all active U.S. aircraft carriers...
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High Explosive Research (section Nuclear reactors)
Research Establishment was located at a former airfield, Harwell, in Berkshire, under the direction of John Cockcroft. The first nuclear reactor in the...
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HMNB Devonport (redirect from His Majesty's Naval Base, Devonport)
NSRC (Naval Service Recovery Centre) & Hasler Company Royal Marines Southern Diving Group RN 1 × Sea-class 15 m diving support boat (DSB Vulcan) Defence...
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Nuclear weapons of the United Kingdom (redirect from British nuclear weapons tests)
when 50 Valiants, 70 Vulcans and 39 Victors were in service. A month after Britain's first atomic weapons test, America tested the first thermonuclear...
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without an internal cannon. Some later models incorporated an internal M61 Vulcan rotary cannon. Beginning in 1959, it set 15 world records for in-flight...
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Cuban Missile Crisis (redirect from Naval quarantine of Cuba)
aircraft tasked with nuclear strike missions Bomber Command Bombers: 120; Vulcan B.1/B.1A/B.2, Victor B.1/B.1A/B2, Valiant B.1 IRBM: 59 Thor (missiles operated...
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Studies of nuclear reactors for nuclear marine propulsion commenced in December 1949, but research at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment (AERE) at Harwell...
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Gas turbine (section Naval)
of the test and is not to be used as a commercial tolerance. List of aircraft engines Centrifugal compressor Gas turbine modular helium reactor Pneumatic...
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Military history of Scotland (section Royal Naval)
nuclear reactor development establishment, is located at Vulcan NTRE, adjacent to Dounreay, which was the site of the UK's fast breeder nuclear reactor programme...
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Patrick Day Sloyan of Newsday reported, "Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Vulcan armored carriers straddled the trench lines and fired into the Iraqi soldiers...
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NASA (category 1958 establishments in Washington, D.C.)
Propulsion Reactor Concept Awards". nasa.gov. Archived from the original on September 6, 2022. Retrieved September 5, 2022. "NASA, DARPA Will Test Nuclear...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Avro Vulcan)
portrays the hijacking of an Avro Vulcan for its nuclear bombs. A B-1 Lancer was portrayed as the laser weapon's test bed in the closing scenes of the...
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AK". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2021-05-03. Laming, Tim (1993). The Vulcan Story. Arms and Armour. ISBN 978-1-85409-148-2. Ranter, Harro. "Incident...
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industrial radiography cameras. Most civilian nuclear reactors, as well as all naval reactors, require fuel containing concentrated 235U, and production...
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early-type nuclear reactor L-IV has an accident, becoming the first nuclear accident in history and consisting of a steam explosion and reactor fire in Leipzig...
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Gundam Mobile Suit Frames to dominate the battlefield, equipped with Ahab Reactors and Alaya Vijnana interfaces. The end of the war was marked by a shift...
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to the establishment de facto of regimes of North Vietnam and South Vietnam, and to the Vietnam War. The first-ever meltdown of a nuclear reactor was deliberately...
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on behalf of Argentina, a circuit called the Rainbow Tour. The 20 mm M61 Vulcan Gatling gun contract is released. The Casio company is founded by engineer...
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B. Hick and Sons (category 1833 establishments in England)
a contract with Vulcan Motor & Engineering Co of Southport for 1000 20 hp petrol engines, but work discontinued in 1922 when Vulcan became bankrupt,...
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