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  2. Naval Reactors Facility - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Fluor Corporation - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Outlook 2022: Fluor, the company behind KAPL, has been ... - AOL

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    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 ...

  6. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. United States naval reactors - Wikipedia

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    The nuclear navies of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation rely on steam turbine propulsion. Those of the French and Chinese use the turbine to generate electricity for propulsion. Most Russian submarines as well as all U.S. surface ships since Enterprise are powered by two or more reactors. U.S., British, French ...

  8. Naval Reactors - Wikipedia

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    Naval Reactors logo. Naval Reactors (NR), which administers the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, [1] is an umbrella term for the U.S. government office that has comprehensive responsibility for the safe and reliable operation of the United States Navy's nuclear reactors "from womb to tomb."

  9. Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant - Wikipedia

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    Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant is a facility located in Scioto Township, Pike County, Ohio, just south of Piketon, Ohio, that previously produced enriched uranium, including highly enriched weapons-grade uranium, for the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the U.S. nuclear weapons program and Navy nuclear propulsion; in later years, it produced low-enriched uranium for fuel for ...