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Access anywhere, anytime: Nuclear power, Ice Camp, and Rickover’s enduring standard of excellence
Admiral William Houston
As U.S. Navy submarines surface through Arctic ice during Ice Camp 2026, they demonstrate more than operational proficiency in one of the harshest environments on Earth. They reaffirm a technological truth first proven in August 1958, when the USS Nautilus completed its submerged transit of the North Pole: nuclear power enables access anywhere, anytime.
The Arctic is unforgiving, with vast distances, extreme cold, shifting ice, and no logistical infrastructure. Conventional propulsion is constrained by fuel, air, and endurance. Nuclear propulsion removes those constraints. Only a nuclear-powered submarine can operate anywhere in the world’s oceans, including under the polar ice, undetected and at maximum capability for extended periods. Nuclear power provides sustained high speed and the endurance to reposition across the globe without refueling.
26th Technology of Fusion Energy Meeting (TOFE 2024)
Kevin Freudenberg is technical director of engineering systems of US ITER, a multi-lab effort funded by U.S. Department of Energy to deliver U.S. contributions to the international ITER project.
In this role, he oversees analysis, central solenoid magnets, design integration, instrumentation and controls, plasma heating systems, vacuum auxiliary and roughing pump systems, the tokamak cooling water system, and the tokamak exhaust processing system. Additionally, he currently serves as interim technical director of plasma diagnostics and fueling systems.
Before joining US ITER in 2007, Kevin gained more than 20 years of experience in the design and analysis of experimental fusion energy research facilities and components and contributed to the engineering design of several facilities and devices.
In 2019, he was elected to the Fusion Technology Standing Committee of IEEE’s Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society and has served as treasurer, sponsorship chair, and general chair for the group’s Symposium on Fusion Energy. He holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida.
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