In Schenectady and West Milton, New York GE designs the first liquid metal cooled nuclear submarine (SSN-575). Work was done at Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) in Niskayuna, and at West Milton (north of Schenectady). This film is part of the GE family album series which revives old films for today's viewers. by the Edison Exploratorium
My father served on The Seawolf during the Cuban Missle Crisis while I was an infant in my cradle. My earliest memory is holding the steering wheel of one of the diving planes. I stll have his dogtags and porpoises. I am proud of that man. He was an electronics technian and helpled change the engine from sodium to water. And he never told their secrets.
homosapiens1960 3 months ago
Ah yes, safety being the primary concern, let's pump water through a sodium cauldron.
mpwelk 2 years ago
U.S.S. Seawolf's liquid metal reactor was a failure, it was replaced with a pressurised water reactor. Seawolf spent the latter half of it's service as a special projects sub. this sub was retired in the early 1990's. the SSN-21 submarine was named U.S.S. Seawolf & was the quietest & most advanced submarine in the world when it was launched in 1997, today only the Virginia class is more advanced.
kdraper2007 2 years ago