First eight RAN sailors have graduated from the USN Nuclear Power Traing Unit. Five further officers have also graduated following on from the two groups of three from the prototype courses and will now gain sea experience on SUBPAC Virginias.
The first enlisted Australian sailors that could eventually crew American and Australian nuclear attack submarines graduated from the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Power Training Unit, the service announced.
Eight Royal Australian Navy sailors graduated from the six-month course on April 18 and are now qualified to handle the reactors and other associated systems on the nuclear attack boats that Canberra is set to receive under the 2021 Australia, United Kingdom and United States trilateral security agreement. The training, which began in the fall of 2024, included courses on mathematics, nuclear physics, reactor principles, and nuclear reactor technology.
“Having naval nuclear power-qualified officers, and now sailors, is critical in meeting our goal of operating conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarines,” RAN Commodore Daniel Sutherland, commander RAN Submarine Force.
https://news.usni.org/2025/04/22/fir...vy-nuke-school