"accident resulted in one of the three OK-150 reactors being damaged beyond repair. All three reactors were removed, and replaced by two OK-900 reactors; the ship returned to service in 1970. The ""Lenin"" was taken out of operation in November 1989 and laid up at Atomflot, the base for nuclear-powered icebreakers, in the Murmansk Fjord. Conversion to a museum ship was scheduled to be completed . ""Arktika"" class icebreakers are the bulk of the Russian nuclear icebreaker fleet; six of Russia's ten nuclear civilian ships are ""Arktika""s. Since they have been built over a period of thirty years, ships of"
"NS Savannah NS ""Savannah"" was the first nuclear-powered merchant ship. It was built in the late 1950s at a cost of $46.9 million (including a $28.3 million nuclear reactor and fuel core) and launched on July 21, 1959. It was funded by United States government agencies. ""Savannah"" was a demonstration project for the potential use of nuclear energy. The ship was named after , the first steamship to cross the Atlantic ocean. It was in service between 1962 and 1972 as one of only four nuclear-powered cargo ships ever built. (Soviet ice-breaker ""Lenin"" launched on December 5, 1957, was the"
"USS Nautilus (SSN-571) USS ""Nautilus"" (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958. Sharing names with Captain Nemo's fictional submarine in Jules Verne's classic 1870 science fiction novel ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", and named after another that served with distinction in World War II, the new atomic powered ""Nautilus"" was authorized in 1951, with laying down for construction in 1952 and launched in January 1954, attended by Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States, wife of 34th President Dwight D."
"Shippingport Atomic Power Station The Shippingport Atomic Power Station was (according to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission) the world’s first full-scale atomic electric power plant devoted exclusively to peacetime uses. It was located near the present-day Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station on the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States, about 25 miles (40 km) from Pittsburgh. The reactor reached criticality on December 2, 1957, and aside from stoppages for three core changes, it remained in operation until October 1982. The first electrical power was produced on December 18, 1957 as engineers synchronized the plant with the distribution grid"
"first Atomic Bomb hit Japan. Underway on 23 March 1963 USS ""Currituck"" arrived at Yokosuka, Japan on 25 March 1963. On 1 April 1963 the USS PINE ISLAND (AV-12) arrived, and the flag was transferred. On 2 April 1963 USS ""Currituck"" departed West-Pac for her home port of San Diego, California, arriving on 19 April 1963. June 1963 saw USS ""Currituck"" operating from a seadrone at White Cove, Santa Catalina Island, California for one week of day and night seaplane operations with VP-48. In July 1963 Commander Brown, USN, assumed duties of executive officer. On 20 January 1964 Captain John"
"Mutsu (nuclear ship) Mutsu was Japan's first, and only nuclear-powered ship. It was built as a nuclear merchant ship, one of four such vessels ever constructed, but never carried commercial cargo. The reactor was completed on 25 August 1972, and fuel was loaded on 4 September. When officials announced that the first test run was to be run at the pier in Ōminato, local protests forced them to reconsider. Eventually it was decided to test the ship in the open ocean, east of Cape Shiriya. The ship departed Ōminato on 26 August 1974, and the reactor attained criticality on 28"
"another reactor designed and operated by Argonne National Laboratory). The world's first commercial scale nuclear power station, Obninsk in the Soviet Union, began generation with its reactor AM-1 on 27 June 1954. Other early nuclear power plants were Calder Hall in England, which began generation on 17 October 1956, and the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania, which began on 26 May 1958. Nuclear power was used for the first time for propulsion by a submarine, the USS ""Nautilus"", in 1954. In 1972, the French physicist Francis Perrin discovered fifteen ancient and no longer active natural nuclear fission reactors in"
"Hahn, the German chemist and Nobel prize winner, who discovered the nuclear fission of uranium in 1938. The first captain of the ""Otto Hahn"" was Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, a German U-boat ace of World War II. In 1968, the ship's 38-megawatt nuclear reactor was taken critical and sea trials began. In October of that year, NS ""Otto Hahn"" was certified for commercial freight transport and research. Configured to carry passengers and ore, ""Otto Hahn"" made her first port call in Safi, Morocco, loading a cargo of phosphate ores, in 1970. In 1972, after four years of operation, her reactor was refuelled."
"Lenin (1957 icebreaker) Lenin () is a Soviet nuclear-powered icebreaker. Launched in 1957, it was both the world's first nuclear-powered surface ship and the first nuclear-powered civilian vessel. ""Lenin"" entered operation in 1959 and worked clearing sea routes for cargo ships along Russia's northern coast. From 1960 to 1965 the ship covered over 85,000 miles during the Arctic navigation season, of which almost 65,000 were through ice. On April 10, 1974 the vessel was awarded the Order of Lenin. She was officially decommissioned in 1989. She was subsequently converted to a museum ship and is now permanently based at Murmansk."
"Akademik Lomonosov Akademik Lomonosov () is a non-self-propelled powership to be operated as the first Russian floating nuclear power station. The ship was named after Academician Mikhail Lomonosov. The keel of ""Akademik Lomonosov"" was laid on 15 April 2007. Construction started at the Sevmash Submarine-Building Plant in Severodvinsk. It cost 6 billion rubles ($232 million). The celebrations were attended by the first deputy prime minister of Russia, Sergei Ivanov, and by the head of Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko. Originally, ""Akademik Lomonosov"" was supposed to supply power to Severodvinsk town and Sevmash itself. However, in August 2008, the Russian government approved the"
"Nuclear Landmark. Visitors may tour the forward two compartments, with guidance from an automated system. Despite similar alterations to exhibit the engineering spaces, tours aft of the control room are not permitted due to safety and security concerns. USS Nautilus (SSN-571) USS ""Nautilus"" (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first submarine to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole on 3 August 1958. Sharing names with Captain Nemo's fictional submarine in Jules Verne's classic 1870 science fiction novel ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", and named after another that served with distinction in World War"
"that was to forever change the nature of the submarine arm occurred. That revolution was . The was the first nuclear-powered submarine. ""Nautilus"" put to sea for the first time on 17 January 1955, transmitting the historic message, """"Under way on nuclear power."""" Up until that point, submarines had been torpedo boats tied to the surface by the need to charge their batteries using diesel engines relatively often. The nuclear power plant of the ""Nautilus"" meant that the boat could stay underwater for literally months at a time, the only operational limit being the amount of food that the boat"
"power plant. Akademik Lomonosov Akademik Lomonosov () is a non-self-propelled powership to be operated as the first Russian floating nuclear power station. The ship was named after Academician Mikhail Lomonosov. The keel of ""Akademik Lomonosov"" was laid on 15 April 2007. Construction started at the Sevmash Submarine-Building Plant in Severodvinsk. It cost 6 billion rubles ($232 million). The celebrations were attended by the first deputy prime minister of Russia, Sergei Ivanov, and by the head of Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko. Originally, ""Akademik Lomonosov"" was supposed to supply power to Severodvinsk town and Sevmash itself. However, in August 2008, the Russian government"
"The Atomic Submarine The Atomic Submarine is a 1959 independently made American black-and-white science fiction film drama, produced by Alex Gordon, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, that stars Arthur Franz, Dick Foran, Brett Halsey and Joi Lansing, with John Hilliard as the voice of the alien. The film was distributed by Allied Artists Pictures Corporation. The storyline of ""The Atomic Submarine"" concerns an alien invasion that begins when an underwater UFO attacks the world's shipping for unknown reasons. The film showcases the (then) new technology of nuclear submarines and follows the crew and scientists aboard the atomic powered USS ""Tigershark"","
"by way of preparation for becoming prospective commanding officer of the USS ""Nautilus"" (SSN-571), the world’s first nuclear-powered submarine. He took command of the ship upon her commissioning on 30 September 1954 and held that billet until relieved in June 1957. During his three-year tour aboard the ""Nautilus"", he presided over pre-commissioning and post-commissioning trials of the submarine. These trials established the capabilities of the nuclear-powered submarine and were used in the development of early nuclear-powered submarine tactics. ""Nautilus"" successfully attacked surface ships without being detected and evaded most pursuers. At 1100 on January 17, 1955, after getting underway, Commander"
"in spite of the threats and objections of Alvarez, ""Seaview"" launches a missile toward the belt and it explodes the burning flames outward, saving the world. The name of the film is an inversion of a phrase popular at the time, concerning the exploration of the Arctic Ocean by nuclear submarines, namely, ""a voyage to the top of the world."" From August 1, 1958, through August 5, 1958, USS ""Nautilus"" (SSN-571) (the first nuclear-powered submarine), under the command of Commander (later Captain) William R. Anderson, steamed under the Arctic ice cap to make the first crossing from the Pacific to"
"MH-1A MH-1A was the first floating nuclear power station. Named ""Sturgis"" after General Samuel D. Sturgis, Jr., this pressurized water reactor built in a converted Liberty ship was part of a series of reactors in the US Army Nuclear Power Program, which aimed to develop small nuclear reactors to generate electrical and space-heating energy primarily at remote, relatively inaccessible sites. Its designation stood for ""mobile, high power"". After its first criticality in 1967, MH-1A was towed to the Panama Canal Zone that it supplied with 10 MW of electricity from October 1968 to 1975. Its dismantling was started in 2014"
"SS Charles H. Cugle SS ""Charles H. Cugle"" was a Type Z-EC2-S-C5 Liberty ship built by J.A. Jones Construction of Panama City, Florida, launched on 13 August 1945. It was ordered by the War Shipping Administration under Maritime Commission Contract number 3145. As part of the Army Nuclear Power Program the ship was transferred to the U.S. Army in March 1963, and fitted with a pressurized water reactor, fuelled by used low enriched uranium, designed by Martin Marietta, becoming the world's first floating nuclear power plant, at a cost of $17 million. Now renamed ""Sturgis"" (MH-1A) the reactor began operation"
"becoming the first ship built according to the ""Code of Safety for Nuclear Merchant Ships"" adopted by the International Maritime Organization in 1981. Special attention was paid to the safety aspects of the vessel and, in addition to running aground or colliding with the reinforced bow of an icebreaker, the Soviet naval architects even took into account the possibility of a passenger aircraft crashing on ""Sevmorput"". ""Sevmorput"" is powered by a single KLT-40 nuclear fission reactor with a thermal output of 135 megawatts. The reactor core contains of 30–40- or 90-percent enriched uranium in uranium-zirconium alloy and has required refueling"
"Her nuclear reactor was manufactured by Babcock & Wilcox. She was christened by US First Lady Mamie Eisenhower at the ship's launching on July 21, 1959. In 1969, ""Savannah"" became the first nuclear-powered ship to dock in New York City. She was a centerpiece for a citywide information festival called ""Nuclear Week In New York."" Thousands of people toured ""Savannah"" and attended related special events. These included demonstrations of advancements in peaceful uses of atomic energy, such as food products preserved by radiation, new applications for technology and many information and education programs. ""The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"" featured"
"by The Walt Disney Company, and her wardroom currently displays a set of tableware made of zirconium, as the reactor core was partly made of zirconium. Following her commissioning, ""Nautilus"" remained dockside for further construction and testing. On the morning of January 17, 1955, at 11 am EST, ""Nautilus""' first Commanding Officer, Commander Eugene P. Wilkinson, ordered all lines cast off and signaled the memorable and historic message, ""Underway On Nuclear Power."" On 10 May, she headed south for shakedown. Submerged throughout, she traveled from New London to San Juan, Puerto Rico and covered in less than ninety hours. At"
"first nuclear-powered civil ship.) ""Savannah"" was deactivated in 1971 and after several moves has been moored at Pier 13 of the Canton Marine Terminal in Baltimore, Maryland, since 2008. In 1955, President Dwight Eisenhower proposed building a nuclear-powered merchant ship as a showcase for his ""Atoms for Peace"" initiative. The next year, Congress authorized ""Savannah"" as a joint project of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Maritime Administration (MARAD), and the Department of Commerce. She was designed by George G. Sharp, Incorporated, of New York City. Her keel was laid down by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden, New Jersey."
"then as a power facility abroad by the International Steel and Metal Corporation. In 1959, she was renamed ""Somerset"". The first floating nuclear reactor ship was the MH-1A, in the Panama canal zone. This ship (the Sturgis) is due to be scrapped in 2015. Although the reactor and fuel have already been removed. Power barges and power ships offer a number of advantages over other forms of power plants; due to their mobility, powerships can be connected to local power grids to temporarily cover demands whenever on site power plants are insufficient or the building of new power plants will"
"nuclear-powered submarine was first proposed in the United States Navy by the Naval Research Laboratory's Ross Gunn in 1939. Construction of the world's first nuclear powered submarine was made possible by the successful development of a nuclear propulsion plant by a group of scientists and engineers at the Naval Reactors Branch of the Bureau of Ships and the Atomic Energy Commission. In July 1951 the U.S. Congress authorized construction of the first nuclear-powered submarine, ""Nautilus"", under the leadership of Captain Hyman G. Rickover, USN (sharing names with Captain Nemo's fictional submarine in Jules Verne's ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"","
"the water. NS ""Savannah"", was the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, and was built in the late 1950s as a demonstration project for the potential use of nuclear energy. Thousands of Liberty Ships (powered by steam piston engines) and Victory Ships (powered by steam turbine engines) were built in World War II. A few of these survive as floating museums and sail occasionally: SS ""Jeremiah O'Brien"", SS ""John W. Brown"", ""SS ""American Victory"", SS ""Lane Victory"", and SS ""Red Oak Victory"". A steam turbine ship can be either direct propulsion (the turbines, equipped with a reduction gear, rotate directly the propellers),"
"Nuclear powered cruisers of the United States Navy The United States Navy at one time had nuclear powered cruisers as part of its fleet. The first such ship was USS ""Long Beach"" (CGN-9). Commissioned in late summer 1961, she was the world's first nuclear powered surface combatant. She was followed a year later by USS ""Bainbridge"" (DLGN-25). While ""Long Beach"" was a 'true cruiser', meaning she was designed and built as a cruiser, ""Bainbridge"" began life as a frigate, though at that time the Navy was using the hull code ""DLGN"" for ""destroyer leader, guided missile, nuclear"". This was prior"
"Nuclear powered cruisers of the United States Navy The United States Navy at one time had nuclear powered cruisers as part of its fleet. The first such ship was USS ""Long Beach"" (CGN-9). Commissioned in late summer 1961, she was the world's first nuclear powered surface combatant. She was followed a year later by USS ""Bainbridge"" (DLGN-25). While ""Long Beach"" was a 'true cruiser', meaning she was designed and built as a cruiser, ""Bainbridge"" began life as a frigate, though at that time the Navy was using the hull code ""DLGN"" for ""destroyer leader, guided missile, nuclear"". This was prior"
"was Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, who is known as the ""Father of the Nuclear Navy.” The first nuclear-powered submarine, the , was launched and commissioned in 1954. The development of the nuclear-powered submarine greatly increased capabilities; the duration a sub could remain underwater was now limited only by food supply. By using power generated from the reactor, air was able to be continually recycled and water was able to be distilled from seawater. The nuclear-powered sub could also reach and maintain much higher speeds than its predecessors. Shortly after the USS ""Nautilus"", the was commissioned. The reactor engine in the"
"French battleship Napoléon Napoléon was a 90-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, and the first purpose-built steam battleship in the world. She is also considered the first true steam battleship, and the first screw battleship ever. Launched in 1850, she was the lead ship of a class of nine battleships, all built over a period of ten years. This class of ship was designed by the famous naval designer Henri Dupuy de Lôme. She was originally to be named ""Prince de Joinville"", in honour of François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, but was renamed ""24 Février"" during the"
"Otto Hahn (ship) Otto Hahn was one of only four nuclear-powered cargo vessels built to date. Planning of a German-built trade and research vessel to test the feasibility of nuclear power in civil service began in 1960 under the supervision of the German physicist Erich Bagge. Launched in 1964, her nuclear reactor was deactivated fifteen years later in 1979 and replaced by a conventional Diesel engine room. The ship was scrapped in 2009. ""Otto Hahn""s keel was laid down in 1963 by Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft AG of Kiel. She was launched in 1964 and named in honour of Professor Otto"
"HMS James Watt HMS ""James Watt"" was a 91-gun steam and sail-powered second rate ship of the line. She had originally been ordered as one of a two ship class, with her sister , under the name HMS ""Audacious"". She was renamed on 18 November 1847 in honour of James Watt, the inventor of the steam engine. She was the only Royal Navy ship to bear this name. Both ships were reordered as screw propelled ships, ""James Watt"" in 1849, and ""Cressy"" in 1852. ""James Watt"" became one of the four-ship ""Agamemnon""-class of ships of the line. They were initially"
"Usage of Nuclear Energy in Ship-Building and Seafare. The first German nuclear vessel, the ""NS Otto Hahn"", was launched in 1962. A research reactor was installed in Geesthacht near Hamburg at about the same time which has over the years formed into a center for materials research with neutrons. Dr. Bagge developed a gaseous uranium enrichment device (""Isotopenschleuse"" or ""isotope sluice"") for enriching the U-235 isotope content of uranium in 1944, using three methods; centrifugal force, electromagnetism and thermal diffusion. It was built by BAMAG-MEGUIN under the direction of Kurt Diebner. Yellow cake uranium oxide powder was reacted with hydrofluoric"
"HMS Agamemnon (1781) HMS ""Agamemnon"" was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the British Royal Navy. She saw service in the Anglo-French War, French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and fought in many of the major naval battles of those conflicts. She is remembered as being Nelson's favourite ship, and was named after the mythical ancient Greek king Agamemnon, being the first ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. The future Lord Nelson served as ""Agamemnon""s captain from January 1793 for 3 years and 3 months, during which time she saw considerable service in the Mediterranean. After"