You are currently viewing August 30, 2019 – EB Hosts Visitors for Annual Naval Nuclear Laboratory Tour of the Shipyard

On Saturday, July 20, Electric Boat Groton hosted over 50 interns, new hires, and staff from the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory (KAPL) and Kesselring sites for the annual Naval Nuclear Laboratory (NNL) tour of the shipyard. This yearly event has been organized by Department 412 since 2002.

EB employees across various engineering disciplines gave presentations on a range of topics including computational fluid dynamics, transient shock analysis, piping analysis and acoustics. In the afternoon, volunteer tour guides led groups of the NNL visitors through portions of new construction hulls SSN 793, SSN 795, and SSN 799, as well as the model room, COATS facility and COLUMBIA reactor head area mockup.

This year’s tour was coordinated by Leslie Christie, Nicole Enos-Quito and Jacqueline Tulip. Special thanks were given to the presenters (Steve Cook, Tess Diffenbaugh, Bronwyn Hughes, Jack Leonard III, Tom Plante, Bob Scherrer and Jeff Youngs) and the tour guides (Ethan Babcock, Jon Carr, Andrew Gilday, Greg King, Zachary Koester, Jeremy Marciniak, Joe Marmaud, Eric Martell, Mark Plourde, Henry Stracensky and Jeremy Truex) for their time and dedication. Feedback from KAPL and Kesselring was excellent and they were very appreciative of Electric Boat hosting the tour.

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