Editing Naval Reactors Facility

{{short description|United States Department of Energy nuclear reactor facility}}
[[File:HD.6D.002 (10727647464).jpg|thumb|View from outside, circa 1957.]]
The '''Naval Reactors Facility''' ('''NRF''') is located {{convert|52|mi}} northwest of [[Idaho Falls, Idaho]]. The NRF is a [[United States Department of Energy]]-[[Naval Reactors]] facility where three nuclear propulsion prototypes [[A1W reactor|A1W]], [[S1W reactor|S1W]] and [[S5G reactor|S5G]] were located. It is contractor-operated for the government by [[Fluor Corporation]] through their subsidiary, Fluor Marine Propulsion, LLC, which also operates [[Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory]] and [[Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory]].

From the early 1950s to the mid-1990s, NRF supported the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered fleet by testing reactor designs, receiving spent nuclear fuel for processing and storage, and training nearly 40,000 Navy personnel to operate surface and submarine nuclear power plants.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.postregister.com/special/siteofimpact/story.php?accession=1001-01272008
|title=Cleaning house and charting a future at INL 
|author=Paul Menser }}</ref> 

The only remaining active facility at NRF is the Expended Core Facility / Dry Storage Facility, which provides for storage of spent fuel from U.S. Naval reactors. 

NRF is part of the [[Idaho National Laboratory]].

==See also==
*[[United States naval reactors]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060927020730/http://www.deq.idaho.gov/inl_oversight/about/facilities/nrf.cfm About INL Facilities: Naval Reactors Facility (NRF)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090930211648/http://www.deq.state.id.us/inl_oversight/waste/spent_nuclear_fuel.cfm#nrf Expended Core Facility / Dry Storage Facility]
*[http://www.ne.anl.gov/About/reactors/lwr3.shtml#fragment-2 STR (Submarine Thermal Reactor) — Reactors Designed by Argonne National Laboratory: LWR Technology Development]

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[[Category:United States Navy]]