#Knolls atomic power laboratory full#
In 2006 KAPL achieved full remediation of the S1C Prototype Reactor site located in Windsor, Connecticut. KAPL employs more than 2,600 people at these sites and others, mostly shipyards in the states of California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Virginia, and Washington. This site is also used to train officers and enlisted personnel for the U.S. The West Milton site operates land-based prototypes of shipboard reactor plants. Niskayuna is the primary site for the KAPL, focusing on the design and development of naval propulsion plants and reactor cores. KAPL operates two sites in New York, the Knolls site in Niskayuna and the Kenneth A. The Chart has been compiled, edited and periodically revised by KAPL scientists since 1956. This chart is a necessity for students and professionals in nuclear physics, chemistry, engineering, and medicine around the world. The Chart of the Nuclides, containing information such as masses, relative abundances, half-lives, neutron cross sections, and decay properties for more than 3,100 nuclides and 580 isomers was developed at KAPL. In 19, Jimmy Carter, who would later become a US president, worked at KAPL as an engineer. Several years later Knolls' work joined that of Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, the Argonne National Laboratory, and others in developing the world's first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus on January 21, 1954. In 1950, the nuclear power plant project was converted to a Naval Nuclear Propulsion project. Government to conduct nuclear research and development, including the generation of electricity from nuclear energy. On May 15, 1946, KAPL began with a contract between General Electric and the U.S. It also manages work on nuclear ships at numerous shipyards across the country. KAPL is responsible for the research, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of U.S. In the 21st century, KAPL is a government-owned, contractor-operated laboratory for the US Department of Energy. KAPL was instituted in 1946 under a contract between General Electric and the United States government. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory ( KAPL) is an American research and development facility based in Niskayuna, New York and dedicated to the support of the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.