These prototypes are essentially a section of the ship containing the power plant, or the reactor compartment and the engine room. The first shipboard application of the design was in the submarine SEAWOLF (SSN 575), which was commissioned in 1957.īetween 19 KSO contained four high power Naval Prototype reactor plants, namely the S3G, D1G, S7G, and S8G. A prototype of that first KAPL reactor was built and operated at the laboratory's Kesselring Site in West Milton, New York. It operates two prototypes of submarine nuclear propulsion plants for the operational testing of new designs and new technologies under typical operating conditions before introducing them into the fleet.īy 1955 KAPL had designed a reactor that could propel a submarine for about three years of normal operations. It is situated on approximately 3,905 acres. The Kesselring Site Operation (KSO) is located about 5 miles from Ballston Spa, NY, and 8 miles from the resort area of Saratoga Springs, NY. The Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) - Kesselring, is engaged solely in research and development for the design and operation of naval nuclear propulsion plants. Navy, has operated the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory including the Kesselring Site, since February 2009. The Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation (BMPC), under contract with the DOE and U.S.
became a Lockheed Martin company, after the Martin Marietta and Lockheed corporations merged. In 1993, responsibility for operation of the KAPL facilities, including the Kesselring Site, was transferred to KAPL, Inc., a subsidiary of Martin Marietta Corporation. The General Electric Company operated the Kesselring Site under Government contract, as part of the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL), from its inception in 1950 until 1993. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory Kesselring Site is known as "NPTU Ballston Spa" to Nucs.
Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and the US Navy. Since 2009, Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation has operated the Bettis and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratories for the U.S. KNOLLS ATOMIC POWER LABORATORY - Kesselring West Milton, New York
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