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Nuclear-Powered Submarine
USS Nautilus (1954) runs on a reactor, staying submerged for weeks; the naval reactor becomes the model for commercial power plants.
Open in the interactive tree →Admiral Rickover's naval reactors programme developed the pressurised-water reactor, which then powered the Shippingport plant in 1957. Most of the world's nuclear power plants descend from this design.
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- Nuclear Power1954The pressurised-water reactor of civilian plants came from the naval programme
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