A U.S.-based facility that served as a naval nuclear propulsion prototype reactor plant has been fully deactivated. The ...

South Korean shipbuilders Hyundai Heavy Industries and Hanwha Ocean are actively marketing the advanced KSS-III (Dosan Ahn ...

Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) has stood as a promising potential alternative propulsion technology for decades. Chemical ...

The naval reactors program for the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines and updated Virginia-class attack boat are “in ...

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, has met with Greek shipowners and government ...

For combat naval technology, America’s mastery of nuclear propulsion is the crown jewel. Quiet, lethal submarines powered by small nuclear reactors give the U.S. Navy an incalculable edge in ...

Fission technology is well established in power generation and nuclear-powered submarines, and its application to drive ... its kind to be built and operated by the U.S. Nuclear thermal propulsion ...

But when the discussion turns to ship propulsion, inevitably the inefficiency ... The NR-1 was actually more correctly a small US Navy nuclear submarine than a submersible. She displaced about ...

Since the U.S. military developed the first nuclear marine propulsion system in the 1940s, atomic power has played a critical role in extending the range and sea time of vessels. Starting with ...

It takes several years to build a carrier and bring it into operation, but developing nuclear propulsion for its ... navy with more than 370 ships and submarines. The country also boasts powerful ...