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USS Seawolf (SSN-575)
The S2G reactor was a naval reactor used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships, and the only liquid metal cooled reactor yet deployed by the US Navy. The S2G designation stands for:
S = Submarine platform
2 = Second generation core designed by the contractor
The S2Greactor was a naval reactor used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships, and the only liquid metal...
site S1W reactor land-based prototype for USS Nautilus (SSN-571); located at Naval Reactors Facility S2C reactor USS Tullibee (SSN-597) S2Greactor USS Seawolf (SSN-575)...
pressurized water reactor (PWR) as the standard U.S. naval reactor type. The S2G was removed from USS Seawolf and replaced by the S2Wa reactor, using components...
expensive and toxic, so its use is limited. Beryllium was used in the S2Greactor. Lithium-7, in the form of a lithium fluoride salt, typically in conjunction...
Unique submarine; liquid metal cooled (sodium) S2Greactor (replaced with a pressurized-water reactor in 1959) Skate 4 USS Skate (SSN-578) 21 July 1955...
the S2G's use of 347 Stainless Steel caused by the sodium in the liquid sodium reactor in its superheater the USS Seawolf (SSN-575) had her S2G liquid...
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