S2C reactor

S2C reactor

The S2C reactor is a naval reactor used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships. The S2C designation stands for:

* S = Submarine platform
* 2 = Second generation core designed by the contractor
* C = Combustion Engineering was the contracted designer

This nuclear reactor is the shipboard equivalent ot the S1C reactor, and was installed on the experimental USS "Tullibee" (SSN-597) submarine.


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