World's First Commercial Atomic Power Plant

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Synopsis: Power and Promise.This film shows the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, which was built to improve power reactor technology and demonstrate the use of a central station atomic power plant as part of a utility network.(326-Pl-7-3890916)...(read more)

Date: 1959
Duration: 00:11:12
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: United States

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First Commercial Atomic Power Station

World's First Commercial Atomic Power Station

The construction of Shippingport Power Station; the manufacture and installation of pumps, heat exchangers and pressure vessels; the installation of the reactor core; and explains the production and control of heat and radioactivity produced by nuclear fission. Shippingport was the first commercial nuclear power plant.

Images of heat exchangers for nuclear power plants. Shows cooling tubes being inserted in a straight tube heat exchanger. Shows a U-shaped tube heat exchanger. Shows the Reactor Pressure Vessel that contains the nuclear reactor coolant, core shroud, and the reactor core. Shows the machining of the reactor pressure vessel closing head surface. Shows welders working on the reactor pressure vessel closing head. Various scenes at the Shippingport construction site; concrete mixer truck dumping concrete into concrete bucket. Shows pouring of concrete foundation slab for the nuclear reactor. Shows ironworkers tying rebar on construction site. Shows massive steel container that will house al nuclear components of the power plant. Shows heat exchanger being lowered into position by cranes. Low aerial view of nuclear power plant construction site. Shows the reactor pressure vessel being lowered into position.

Shows a cut-away model of the Shippingport nuclear power plant and the plant after construction was completed. Shows the fueling of a new nuclear power plant. Shows reactor core assemble in a clean room. Closing head placed on reactor pressure vessel. Voice of President Truman dedicated Shippingport nuclear power plant. Panning shot of the control room at Shippingport nuclear power plant with it's multitude of switches, gauges, and instruments on the Reactor Control Panel, Turbine Control Panel, and Generator Control Panel. Animation show nuclear reaction.