C1W reactor

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The C1W reactor is a nuclear reactor used by the United States Navy to provide electricity generation and propulsion on warships. The C1W designation stands for:

• C = Cruiser platform
• 1 = First generation core designed by the contractor
• W = Westinghouse was the contracted designer

This type of nuclear propulsion plant was used exclusively on the Long Beach-class guided missile cruiser, the world's first nuclear-powered cruiser. The C1W was the only nuclear reactor ever explicitly earmarked for a cruiser, with all subsequent nuclear cruisers powered by "D"-class (or destroyer-type) reactors.

United States Naval reactors

Aircraft carrier reactors:

A1W | A2W | A3W | A4W| A1B

Cruiser reactors:

C1W

Destroyer reactors:

D1G | D2G

Submarine reactors:

S1C | S1G | S1W | S2C | S2G | S2W  |S2Wa | S3G | S3W S4G | S4W | S5G | S5W | S6G | S6W |  S7G | S8G | S9G

List of United States Naval reactors