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Nuclear Power School (NPS) is a technical school operated by the U.S. Navy in Goose Creek, South Carolina as a central part of a program that trains enlisted sailors, officers, KAPL civilians and Bettis civilians for shipboard nuclear power plant operation and maintenance of surface ships and submarines in the U.S. nuclear navy. [1]
The Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC) is a program element of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program [1] and is responsible for educating enlisted and commissioned personnel of the US nuclear naval program. NNPTC's mission is to train officer and enlisted students in science and engineering fundamental to the design, operation, and ...
The United States Navy first began research into the applications of nuclear power in 1946 at the Manhattan Project's nuclear power-focused laboratory to develop a nuclear power plant. Eight men were assigned to the project. One of these men was Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who is known as the "Father of the Nuclear Navy."
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. — Nuclear operators are considered the Navy’s “best and brightest,” with only the top-scoring applicants gaining acceptance into the prestigious training program.
Those who are selected to be nuclear electronics technicians then enter the Navy Nuclear Pipeline to train to become an ETN. In the first stage of training in the Navy Nuclear Pipeline, prospective ETNs are trained for six months at the Nuclear Field 'A' School (NFAS) at the Naval Nuclear Power Training Command (NNPTC) in Goose Creek, SC. The ...
Sailors at the Navy's challenging nuclear power school faced delays getting their housing allowances, the result of a miscommunication and more side effects of the service's efforts to update its ...
Currently a moored training ship at the Nuclear Power School: Badge: General characteristics; Class and type: Los Angeles-class submarine: Displacement: 5,759 tons light, 6,145 tons full, 386 tons dead: Length: 110.3 m (361 ft 11 in) Beam: 10 m (32 ft 10 in) Draft: 9.7 m (31 ft 10 in) Propulsion: S6G nuclear reactor: Complement: 12 officers ...
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory is a U.S. Government-owned research and development facility in the Pittsburgh suburb of West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, that works exclusively on the design and development of nuclear power for the U.S. Navy. It was one of the leaders in creating the nuclear navy.