What the Electric Boat Co. may be building: Another guess is that it will be shorter and plumper... a thermal reactor suitable for submarine or ship propulsion." The work, which had been going on at the Arco, Idaho, reactor test station, undoubtedly was on its way to successful completion. Last week the Navy announced that a contract "for the first nuclear-powered submarine" had gone to the electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn., the builder of 36 percent of America's submarines. September 03, 1951. (Photo by H.P. Luckett, Popular Science Photo).
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