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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.
Derek H. Lister, Gopala Venkateswaran, Norman Arbeau
Nuclear Technology | Volume 140 | Number 3 | December 2002 | Pages 288-302
Technical Paper | Nuclear Plant Operations and Control | doi.org/10.13182/NT02-A3340
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In water-cooled reactors measures to minimize the radiation fields due to the transport and deposition of 60Co are important to ensure low occupational doses of radiation. For example, it is now accepted practice to add zinc to boiling water reactor coolant to minimize 60Co transport and pickup by surfaces. This paper describes a study of the kinetics of 60Co deposition on Type 316 stainless steel in neutral, partially deoxygenated water at 563 K and 10.2 MPa with and without zinc traced with 65Zn. The effect of zinc addition on the corrosion rate of preoxidized stainless steel was also studied using relatively high concentrations of additive. General observations and a mathematical model of the corrosion rate provide insights into the possible mechanisms involved.
