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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Headquarters of Fluor Bros Construction in the early 1900s. 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 ...
The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km 2) – roughly equivalent to half the total area of Rhode Island – within Benton County, Washington. [1] [2] It is a desert environment receiving less than ten inches (250 mm) of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation.
The plant had a capacity of 8.3 million separative work units per year (SWU/year) in 1984 in 4,080 stages. Three buildings – X-326, X-330 and X-333 – housed gaseous diffusion equipment, [5] and three cooling tower complexes – X-626, X-630 and X-633 – were used to remove process heat. Six hundred eighty-nine million U.S. gallons (2,610 ...
[8] [9] In 2023 DARPA launched the PUMP program to build a marine engine using superconducting magnets expected to reach a field strength of 20 Tesla. [10] Stronger technical limitations apply to air-breathing MHD propulsion (where ambient air is ionized) that is still limited to theoretical concepts and early experiments. [11] [12] [13]