IDAHO FALLS, Idaho – The Naval Reactors Facility conducted a ceremony Oct. 30 celebrating the turnover of the S5G Prototype, the fifth-generation submarine designed by General Electric, to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
An estimated 150 participants attended the S5G prototype turnover ceremony, including members of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes, as well as Congressional staff members. The event theme was the ‘End of an Era’, signifying the S5G as the final prototype at the Naval Reactors Facility to be turned over to the Department of Energy Office’s Idaho Cleanup Project. The S5G was the prototype for USS Narwhal (SSN 671), which was in service from 1969 to 1999.
Until 1995, the Naval...
