List of United States naval reactors
This list of United States Naval reactors is a comprehensive list of all naval reactors designed, built, or used by the United States Navy.
Reactor designations
Each nuclear reactor design is given a three-character designation consisting of a letter representing the type of ship the reactor is intended for, a consecutive generation number, and a letter indicating the reactor's designer.
Ship types:
- "A" – aircraft carrier
 - "C" – cruiser
 - "D" – destroyer
 - "S" – submarine
 
Contracted designers:
- "B" – Bechtel
 - "C" – Combustion Engineering
 - "G" – General Electric
 - "W" – Westinghouse
 
Nuclear reactors of the United States Navy
Naval reactors of the United States Navy, listed alphabetically by ship type.
Aircraft carrier reactors
- A1W reactor
- land-based prototype for USS Enterprise (CVN-65); located at Naval Reactors Facility
 
 - A2W reactor
 - A3W reactor
- designed for USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), but never installed
 
 - A4W reactor
 - A1B reactor
 
Cruiser reactors
- C1W reactor
- Long Beach-class cruiser
 
 
Destroyer reactors
- D1G reactor
- land-based prototype for Bainbridge-class cruiser; located at the Kesselring site
 
 - D2G reactor
- Bainbridge-class cruiser
 - Truxtun-class cruiser
 - California-class cruiser
 - Virginia-class cruiser
 
 
Submarine reactors
- NR-1 reactor
- one-of-a-kind reactor built for the U.S. Navy research submarine NR-1
 
 - S1C reactor
- land-based prototype for USS Tullibee (SSN-597); located at Windsor, Connecticut
 
 - S1G reactor
- land-based prototype for USS Seawolf (SSN-575); located at Kesselring site
 
 - S1W reactor
- land-based prototype for USS Nautilus (SSN-571); located at Naval Reactors Facility
 
 - S2C reactor
 - S2G reactor
 - S2W reactor
 - S2Wa reactor
- replacement reactor for USS Seawolf (SSN-575)
 
 - S3G reactor
- land-based prototype for USS Triton (SSN-586); located at Kesselring site
 
 - S3W reactor
 - S4G reactor
 - S4W reactor
 - S5G reactor
- A land-based prototype located at Naval Reactors Facility
 - USS Narwhal (SSN-671)
 
 - S5W reactor
- Skipjack-class submarine (SSN-585 class)
 - George Washington-class submarine (SSBN-598 class)
 - Thresher/Permit-class submarine (SSN-593/SSN-594 class)
 - Ethan Allen-class submarine (SSBN-608 class)
 - Lafayette-class submarine (SSBN-616 class)
 - James Madison-class submarine (SSBN-627 class)
 - Benjamin Franklin-class submarine (SSBN-640 class)
 - Sturgeon-class submarine (SSN-637 class)
 - USS Parche (SSN-683)
 - USS Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685)
 
 - S6G reactor
- Los Angeles-class submarine (SSN-688 class)
 
 - S6W reactor
- Seawolf-class submarine (SSN-21 class)
 
 - S7G reactor
- land-based prototype (Modifications and Additions to a Reactor Facility or "MARF"), located at the Kesselring site
 
 - S8G reactor
- Ohio-class submarines (SSBN-726 class)
 
 - S9G reactor
- Virginia-class submarine (SSN-774 class)
 
 - S1B reactor
- Columbia-class submarine (SSBN-826 class)
 
 
See also
- List of commercial nuclear reactors
 - Nuclear marine propulsion
 - Rolls-Royce PWR – United Kingdom's naval reactors
 - Soviet naval reactors
 - United States naval reactors
 
References
- US Navy Propulsion Systems – Federation of American Scientists
 - Nuclear Attack Submarines – CombatIndex.com