Much of the U.S. Navy runs on nuclear power, including aircraft carriers and submarines, but the USS America is neither. Here's what gets its motor running.

Key Points and Summary - In 2015, the Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Georgia ran aground near Kings Bay, Georgia, during a routine pilot pickup after exiting the channel and colliding with ...

Article Summary - The Seawolf-class was built to be the U.S. Navy’s ultimate Cold War hunter-killer sub, but the post-Soviet “peace dividend” killed the program after just three boats. -With Los ...

A Bechtel subsidiary received a $812 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for naval nuclear propulsion components by the Navy ...

HFIR reactor operators working from a motorized bridge use hand tools that are 30 feet long to work on the reactor core submerged in a pool 17 feet deep. Veterans of the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Propulsion ...

Long sentences were handed down Wednesday to a couple convicted in a plot to sell our country's secrets about nuclear powered submarines. A judge sentenced former Navy nuclear engineer Jonathan Toebee ...

America’s Sagebrush Navy explores the creation of the Nuclear Navy in the desert of Idaho. In the late 1940’s, Captain Hyman G. Rickover oversaw the creation of three prototype reactors in Idaho.

At its current production rates, China is likely to have a far more menacing submarine force than Russia in short order—though its quality is still uncertain.

Veterans of the U.S. Navy's nuclear propulsion program are bringing their expertise to the Department of Energy's High Flux Isotope Reactor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, applying the same ...