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Ships of the United States Navy employing nuclear propulsion and/or naval reactors. Subcategories This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.
Nuclear-powered ships by navy (4 C) A. Nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (2 C, 2 P) I. Nuclear-powered icebreakers (2 C, 7 P) M. Nuclear-powered merchant ships (5 P) N.
Nuclear-powered ships of the Soviet Navy (2 C, 6 P) U. Nuclear-powered ships of the United States Navy (8 C, 31 P) This page was last edited on 22 March 2024, at ...
Each nuclear reactor design is given a three-character designation consisting of a letter representing the type of ship the reactor is intended for, a consecutive generation number, and a letter indicating the reactor's designer. Ship types: "A" – aircraft carrier "C" – cruiser "D" – destroyer "S" – submarine; Contracted designers: "B ...
The United States is the main navy with nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (10), while Russia has nuclear-powered cruisers. Russia has eight nuclear icebreakers in service or building. Since its inception in 1948, the U.S. Navy nuclear program has developed 27 different plant designs, installed them in 210 nuclear-powered ships, taken 500 ...
In the early 1960s, the United States Navy was the world's first to have 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).
Pacific Nuclear Transport Ltd. 2008 6776 20-24 104 17.3 5.5 10.9 8.5 [8] [6] Rokuei Maru: Japan Nuclear Fuel Transport Co. Ltd. 1996 4913 100 16.5 5.5 14 12.8 [9] Rossita: Russian Federation Rosatomflot: 2011 2557 84 14 4.1 10 8.1 [10] Seiei Maru: Japan Nuclear Fuel Transport Co. Ltd. 2019 4568 99.9 16 4.2 12.3 10.6 [11] Serebryanka: Russian ...
The Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers are currently being constructed for the United States Navy, which intends to eventually acquire ten of these ships in order to replace current carriers on a one-for-one basis, starting with the lead ship of her class, Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), replacing Enterprise (CVN-65), and later the Nimitz-class carriers.