Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

When fully loaded, a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier displaces approximately 100,000 long tons. Two nuclear reactors pour four steam turbines and four shafts, which produce 260,000 shaft horsepower.

The safety of nuclear power ... in the event of an aircraft crash, particularly for older reactor designs that may not have been built to withstand such impacts[4]. Nuclear Power Plant (NPP ...

Microreactors have a much smaller output of up to 20MW, enough to power roughly ... which already builds nuclear reactors for US navy submarines and aircraft carriers, and X-energy, which raised ...

SAN DIEGO -- The Defense Innovation Unit is in the process of evaluating vendor proposals to deliver a nuclear power source for military installations, according to DIU energy portfolio Director ...

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

President Joe Biden announced on Monday that the next two nuclear-powered U.S. Navy aircraft carriers would be named ... not only the example of our power, but the power of our example.

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Hill Air Force Base could receive a portable nuclear reactor to provide backup power generation as ... delivered on a truck or a C-17 aircraft. "Our system lasts for ...