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The laboratory is part of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, a joint U.S Navy-Department of Energy program responsible for the research, design, construction, operation and maintenance of U.S. nuclear-powered warships. The laboratory was founded in 1949 on the site of the former Bettis Field, named after Cyrus Bettis.
Fluor Marine Propulsion is a far less known company than previous operators such as General Electric, Lockheed Martin and Bechtel, but its parent company, Fluor Corp., has been quietly involved in ...
The NRF is a United States Department of Energy-Naval Reactors facility where three nuclear propulsion prototypes A1W, S1W and S5G were located. It is contractor-operated for the government by Fluor Corporation through their subsidiary, Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC, which also operates Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory and Knolls Atomic Power ...
In 1950, the nuclear power plant project was converted to a Naval Nuclear Propulsion project. [3] Several years later Knolls' work joined that of Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory , the Argonne National Laboratory , and others in developing the world's first nuclear-powered submarine , the USS Nautilus on January 21, 1954.
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Fluor Corporation's predecessor, Rudolph Fluor & Brother, was founded in 1890 by John Simon Fluor [3] and his two brothers in Oshkosh, Wisconsin [4] as a saw and paper mill. [3] John Fluor acted as its president [3] and contributed $100 in personal savings to help the business get started. [5] The company was renamed Fluor Bros. Construction Co ...
Yamato 1 on display in Kobe, Japan.The first working full-scale MHD ship. A magnetohydrodynamic drive or MHD accelerator is a method for propelling vehicles using only electric and magnetic fields with no moving parts, accelerating an electrically conductive propellant (liquid or gas) with magnetohydrodynamics.
The turbosail or French turbovoile is a marine propulsion system using a sail-like vertical surface and a powered boundary layer control system to improve lift across a wide angle of attack. This allows the sail to power the boat in any direction simply by moving a single flap at the back of the sail, unlike conventional sails which have to be ...