List of United States Naval reactors

List of United States Naval reactors is a comprehensive annotated list of all naval reactors designed, built, or used by the United States Navy.

Reactor designations

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" - Bechtel
* "C" - Combustion Engineering
* "G" - General Electric
* "W" - Westinghouse

Nuclear reactors of the United States Navy

Naval reactors of the United States Navy, listed alphabetically by ship type.

Aircraft carrier reactors

* A1B reactor
** Sclass|Gerald R. Ford|aircraft carriers, the next generation class of supercarriers
* A1W reactor
** land-based prototype for USS "Enterprise" (CVN-65); located at Naval Reactors Facility
* A2W reactor
** USS|Enterprise|CVN-65
* A3W reactor
** designed for USS|John F. Kennedy|CV-67, but never installed
* A4W reactor
** Sclass|Nimitz|aircraft carriers

Cruiser reactors

* C1W reactor
** "Long Beach" class cruiser

Destroyer reactors

* D1G reactor
** land-based prototype for "Bainbridge" class cruiser; located at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
* D2G reactor
** "Bainbridge" class cruiser
** "Truxtun" class cruiser
** "California" class cruiser
** "Virginia" class cruiser

Submarine reactors

* NR-1 reactor
** one-of-a-kind reactor built for the U.S. Navy research submarine NR-1
* S1C reactor
** land-based prototype for USS "Tullibee" (SSN-597); located at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
* S1G reactor
** land-based prototype for USS "Seawolf" (SSN-575); located at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
* S1W reactor
** land-based prototype for USS "Nautilus" (SSN-571); located at Naval Reactors Facility
* S2C reactor
** USS|Tullibee|SSN-597
* S2G reactor
** USS|Seawolf|SSN-575
* S2W reactor
** USS|Nautilus|SSN-571
* S2Wa reactor
** replacement reactor for USS "Seawolf" (SSN-575)
* S3G reactor
** land-based prototype for USS "Triton" (SSN-586); located at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
* S3W reactor
** USS|Skate|SSN-578
** USS|Sargo|SSN-583
** USS|Halibut|SSGN-587
* S4G reactor
** USS|Triton|SSN-586
* S4W reactor
** USS|Swordfish|SSN-579
** USS|Seadragon|SSN-584
* S5G reactor
** both a land-based prototype located at Naval Reactors Facility, and USS|Narwhal|SSN-671
* S5W reactor
** "Skipjack" class submarine (SSN-585 class)
** "George Washington" class submarine (SSBN-598 class)
** "Thresher/Permit" class submarine (SSN-593/SSN-594 class)
** "Ethan Allen" class submarine (SSBN-608 class)
** "Lafayette" class submarine (SSBN-616 class)
** "James Madison" class submarine (SSBN-627 class)
** "Benjamin Franklin" class submarine (SSBN-640 class)
** "Sturgeon" class submarine (SSN-637 class)
** USS|Parche|SSN-683
** USS|Glenard P. Lipscomb|SSN-685
* S6G reactor
** "Los Angeles" class submarine (SSN-688 class)
* S6W reactor
** "Seawolf" class submarine (SSN-21 class)
* S7G reactor
** land-based prototype located at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
* S8G reactor
** "Ohio" class submarine (SSBN-726 class)
* S9G reactor
** "Virginia" class submarine (SSN-774 class)

See also

* List of nuclear reactors
* Nuclear marine propulsion
* United States Naval reactor

References

* [http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/eng/index.html US Navy Propulsion Systems] - Federation of American Scientists
* [http://www.combatindex.com/hardware/hardware_sea_sub_ssn_main.html Nuclear Attack Submarines] - CombatIndex.com