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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.
Jan-Ru Tang, Lainsu Kao, Jong-Rong Wang, Ruey-Yng Yuann
Nuclear Technology | Volume 129 | Number 1 | January 2000 | Pages 51-68
Technical Paper | Thermal Hydraulics | doi.org/10.13182/NT00-A3045
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The very first work on RETRAN model development and its application to plant design study for the Lungmen nuclear power station (LMNPS) is presented. Lungmen is the fourth nuclear power plant of the Taiwan Power Company (TPC). LMNPS has two advanced boiling water reactor (ABWR) units, each with a thermal power of 3926 MW. The preliminary safety analysis report (PSAR) of LMNPS is currently under review. The Lungmen RETRAN-02/MOD5 model was developed to provide support to TPC in the PSAR review and system design study. An analysis of generator load rejection with failure of all bypass valves was performed against the analysis in the PSAR to benchmark the Lungmen RETRAN model. One of the specific designs of LMNPS is that the reactor has the capability to withstand a full-load rejection or a turbine trip event without a reactor scram. An analysis of generator load rejection with all bypass valves was done to evaluate this design. The results show that this design is appropriate.
