Topic summary
Nuclear reactor technology
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Nuclear reactor.
History
After World War II, the US military sought other uses for nuclear reactor technology. Research by the Army led to the power stations for Camp Century, Greenland, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica, under the Army Nuclear Power Program. The Air Force Nuclear Bomber project resulted in the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment. The US Navy succeeded when it steamed the USS Nautilus (SSN-571) on nuclear power on 17 January 1955.