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From: trb@cbnews.ATT.COM (Tom Balent)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: nuclear powered ships
Keywords: nuclear
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Date: 6 Dec 89 02:48:57 GMT
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From: trb@cbnews.ATT.COM (Tom Balent)

In article <11916@cbnews.ATT.COM> rbeville%tekig5.pen.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET (Bob Beville) writes:
>
>	Along these nuclear powered ship lines..
>	can (able to...) any mil.netters out there
>	comment about a nuclear sub that is nomenclated:  NR-1 ?????
>	If my "parrot is shining" please notify by e-mail.
>	

The NR-1 is a nuclear powered Naval research submarine. It is SMALL,
with a crew of about 4 or 5. In 1973 while stationed on board the
USS Thomas Jefferson (SSBN 618), we were berthed at the pier at the
sub base at New London, the NR-1 was forward of us at the same pier.
The thing is tiny. It is also (was?) very secret - even though I was
a nuclear trained enlisted I (and my shipmates) were not allowed on
board to look around. The thing has wheels on it (so I am told) so that 
it can roll along the bottom. It also has closed circuit tv cameras 
outside so that the occupants can see what is going on. If I remember 
correctly the recator plant is not a pressurized water type, it has some
sort of exotic setup. 

There was, a few years ago, an article in National Geographics about
the sub. The author got permission to ride her when she was on some
sort of survey mission near Ireland. (sorry I cannot be more precise
about the date of the article).

				tom balent
				at&t-ns
				columbus


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