S6W Advanced Fleet Reactor
The S6W Advanced Fleet Reactor that powers the SEAWOLF Class is
revolutionary in the military sense -- quietness and more efficient
performance. It is not a radical design from a safety standpoint. The
reactor is a typical Naval pressurized water reactor. The advanced fleet reactor has been installed in the S8G prototype plant for testing, and the S8G
prototype plant with the Advanced Fleet Reactor will operate exactly as
it has for the past 12 years. That reactor went critical in March 1994 and operated well. Putting the new reactor in a prototype affords the opportunity to operate it before introduction into the fleet, run it harder than in the fleet to determine
its peak performance, and test its long-term properties. For the shipboard plant, the reactor core was loaded March 1995 and the ship's pre-commissioning crew began operating reactor plant systems.
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Maintained by Robert Sherman
Originally created by John Pike
Updated Saturday, February 27, 1999 7:56:20 AM