Nuclear Power School is a technical school operated by the U.S. Navy in Goose Creek, South Carolina to train enlisted sailors, officers, KAPL civilians and Bettis civilians for shipboard nuclear power plant operation and maintenance of surface ships and submarines in the U.S. nuclear navy. The United States Navy currently operates 102 total nuclear power plants including 70 submarines (each with one reactor), 11 aircraft carriers (USS Enterprise has 8 reactors and all others have 2 each), and 4 training/research prototype plants.

Contents

• 1 Overview
• 2 History of locations
• 3 Curriculum
• 4 College credit (enlisted training)
• 5 College equivalence
• 6 Nuclear Power Training Unit
  • 6.1 NPTU History
• 7 References

Noun

nuke (plural nukes)

1. Nuclear weapon.

   "I can buy nukes on the black market for $40 million each" - John Travolta in the movie Swordfish.

2. Something that negates - especially on a catastrophic scale. Destruction.
3. (US, slang) A microwave oven

   "Just put it in the nuke for two minutes and then eat it."

4. Nuclear electrical power generation station.

to nuke (third-person singular simple present nukes, present participle nuking, simple past and past participle nuked)

1. To use a nuclear weapon on a target.

   First they nuked Hiroshima, then Nagasaki.

2. (colloquial) To cook food or beverages in a microwave oven.

   I'll nuke some pizza for dinner.

3. (colloquial) To completely destroy.

   To try to hide his posting history on Usenet, he had his posts nuked from the Google archives. (see also expunge)

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  lns.cornell.edu
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  chess.cornell.edu
  Celebration of 100 years since the discovery of X-rays. Elaborates on uses of x-rays and details the research conducted with the CHESS synchrotron located below the Cornell campus.