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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 facility where three nuclear propulsion prototypes A1W , S1W and S5G were located.
It is on a 890-square-mile (2,310 km 2) complex in the high desert of eastern Idaho, between Arco to the west and Idaho Falls and Blackfoot to the east. Atomic City, Idaho is just south. The laboratory employs approximately 5,700 people.
The reactor was a Westinghouse Electric Corporation-built naval reactor power plant, installed in the Naval Reactors Facility in the desert at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory near Arco, Idaho. It first operated in October 1958.
The land-based nuclear reactor was built at the National Reactor Testing Station, later called Idaho National Engineering Laboratory near Arco, Idaho. [1] The plant was the prototype for the power system of USS Nautilus (SSN-571) , the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, which used the improved S2W reactor .
The S5G was a pressurized water reactor [1] plant with two coolant loops and two steam generators.It had to be designed with the reactor vessel situated low in the boat and the steam generators high in order for natural circulation of the primary coolant to be developed and maintained.
Idaho Falls: 5: Douglas-Farr Building: August 30, 1984 : 493 N. Capital Ave. Idaho Falls: This building is no longer standing. 6: Eagle Rock Ferry: June 7, 1974 : North of Idaho Falls on the Snake River
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Idaho on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
The Nuclear Power School (NPS) is a technical training institution operated by the United States Navy in Goose Creek, South Carolina.It serves as a core component of the Navy’s program to prepare enlisted sailors, officers, and civilians employed at the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory and Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory for the operation and maintenance of nuclear power plants aboard surface ...