I have found three readily available sources referencing this reactor, either directly or indirectly:
Rickover and the Nuclear Navy, Francis Duncan, 1990
American destroyers and Frigates, Norman Friedman, 1982
Deciding to Buy: Civil-military Relations and Major Weapons Programs, Quentin E...
aec
atomic energy commission
bureau of ships
cold war
cruiser
destroyer
energy research and development administration
frigates
naval reactor
naval reactors branch
naval reactors facility
naval sea systems command
nuclearpoweredvessels
united states
united states navy
1980s
british petroleum
cargo submarine
cold war
great britain
nuclearpoweredvesselsnuclear-powered tanker
post-cold war
the british petroleum company p.l.c.
united kingdom
vsel
Navy's Next Attack Submarine Will Be Wider And Based On The New Columbia Class Missile Boats
The SSN(X) design will be wider than the present Virginia class, offering improved capabilities and increased stealthiness underwater.
Does anyone have any thoughts on displacement, size and weapon...
Whenever I look at my little model of the USS Long Beach nuclear missile cruiser I find myself musing what a 21st Century version for Western navies could look like?
Such a ship would replace the Ticonderoga class in the US Navy and perhaps provide Task Force escorts for the RN and MN instead...
Also somewhat confusingly referred to as the Leader-class, not to be confused with what is now the Project 23560E Shkval-class light cruiser.
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2020/07/russian-shipyard-begins-construction-of-leader-nuclear-powered-icebreaker/
ORIGINAL CAPTION: The Leader...
Amongst my favourite warships were the dramatic US Navy Albany class double ended missile ships.
According to the Friedman US Navy cruisers and battleship books more conversions like this were planned.
My favourite Mack conversion would have been the unfinished battleship Kentucky...
2019
anti-air warfare
area air defence
cold war ii
light destroyer
nuclearpoweredvessels
project castlemaine
royal navy
t4x
type 26 offshoot
type 45 destroyer replacement program
united kingdom
With the cancellation of the Merkuriy ssgn program in 1989, the successor to the Oscar II was to be the Oscar III, of which the first units were to be built right after the last of the Oscar IIs. I can't find any illustrations, or descriptions of the planned changes and improvements. Can anyone...
As I hate cluttering up the NIGS thread with speculative what-ifs I have finished my tinkering with Hampshire rebuilt with the NIGS as depicted by portions of the NIGS plans.
The only non-NIGS radars are for 978 for surface-search and a Mk 10 IFF antenna and the ESM systems. I kept both 'Cooky'...
This was a project intended to provide three (correction, four) atomic powered high speed container ships for use on Essential Foreign Trade Route No. 12, between the U.S. Atlantic Coast and the Far East. The ships would have used the AEC Maritime Reactor, a clean sheet gas-cooled reactor design...
1950s
33000-ton tanker
aec
american export isbrandtsen line
atomic energy commission
atomic ships
atoms for peace
cold war
contract ma-1893
high speed container ships
isbrandtsen co.
maritime administration
naval reactor
nuclearpoweredvessels
u.s. congress
united states
vietnam war
I have tried to research but can't find relevant information anywhere, does anyone know why the Astute class have very strange nose shape?
Astute:
Normal submarine
While virtually all maritime nuclear reactors (save the Soviet Alfas and Papas, which ran on lead-cooled fast reactors with a steam secondary circuit) were light water PWRs, other reactor designs have been prototyped which may be of use for maritime nuclear propulsion.
Concepts include direct...
atomic power
bureau of commercial fisheries
bureau of mines
civilian nuclearpowered research submarines
nuclear power
nuclearpoweredvessels
submarine
submersible vehicles
united states
"Will China's Next-Generation Supply Ship be Nuclear-Powered?"
"On September 6, 2018, China’s comprehensive supply ship Hongzehu (Hull 881) was honorably retired, marking that the Chinese Navy has entered a new era of modernization. With its retirement, perhaps the country’s next-generation...
"China has opened the bid to construct its first nuclear-powered icebreaker support ship, a move to prepare for the construction of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, military observers said.
China National Nuclear Corporation on Thursday opened public bidding for the nuclear-powered...
I am reasonably familiar with axis submarine projects, built and unbuilt, c1945. We're there any interesting British or American projects at this time beyond the typical A-Class and Fleet Boats?
From what I've read it seems that the allies were content to build large numbers of relatively...
1945
allies
atomic ships
attack submarine
experimental
great britain
hunter-killer submarine
late 1940s
nuclearpoweredvessels
post-world war ii
royal navy
submarine
united states
united states navy
world war ii
Sorry if this has been flagged previously, I have tried searching, but so far, to no avail.
I am (still) reading Hennessy and Jinks' 'The Silent Deep', and have to say it is a very informative tome.
There is reference made to discussions held during the period when Dennis Healy was Defence...
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