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What does NR stand for?

Naval Reactor


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Narrow Resonance
National Rail (Australia)
National Register
National Review (political magazine)
Nationalrat (Austrian Parlamentary Institution)
Natural Resources
Natural Rubber
Naturally Radioactive
Nauru
Nautic Radio (Island of Vis, Croatia)
Naval Reserve
Navigational Radar
Near (hospitality industry)
Negative Rebuttal (debate)
Negative Reinforcement
Nekromantix (band)
Net Riddle (Central Riddle Network)
Network Rail (UK)
Network Report
Neutral Red (dye)

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It's the type of honor that just doesn't happen; there is a thorough vetting process by a panel of Naval Reactor Engineers, an interview with a four-star admiral and additional training, which included studying at a nuclear power school and reactor school.
From 2004 until last year, nearly all documents regarding NFS and BWXT were withheld as security sensitive information under a Commission policy established in response to issues identified by the Department of Energy s Office of Naval Reactors.
Rickover, USN led a group of scientists and engineers at the Naval Reactors Branch of the Atomic Energy Commission in the successful development of a nuclear propulsion plant where construction of NAUTILUS was made possible.
GAO-04-545 June 25, 2004 The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a separately organized agency within the Department of Energy (DOE), is responsible for the management and security of the nation's nuclear weapons, nonproliferation, and naval reactor programs.
Naval Reactors: Engineer Naval Reactors (NR) is located in Arlington, Virginia, and is a joint Department of Energy and Department of the Navy activity.
It has been given access despite the secrecy and classification of the design and composition of Russian naval reactor fuel.
As much as I hate to disagree, the "Chart of the Nuclides for Naval Reactors, USDOE, that I have hanging on my wall lists the half-life of bismuth-209 as greater than or equal to 2 x [10.
Nikitin provided Bellona with information about the safety systems for "third-generation" nuclear naval reactors similar to those fitted on board the Kursk.

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