Download or read book The First Refueling of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station written by Herbert Feinroth and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shippingport Atomic Power Station written by J. T. Stiefel and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shippingport Atomic Power Station Operating Experience Developments and Future Plans written by P. A. Fleger and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essential History of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station 1957 First Large Scale Nuclear Power Plant in America Work of Admiral Rickover Pressurized Water Reactor Historic American Engineering written by Department of Energy (DOE) and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-09 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. It provides an authoritative history of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, which became operational in December 1957. This historic facility was the first large-scale central station nuclear power plant in the United States and the first plant of such size in the world operated solely to produce electric power; it was the first to have training classes for operators and supervisors; it was the first to use a water-cooled breeder core for a power plant. At 4:30 a.m. on December 2, 1957, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station reached criticality, becoming the Nation's first large-scale central station nuclear power plant to attain a chain reaction. In Chicago, fifteen years earlier to the day, the Italian-born Nobel laureate Enrico Fermi had achieved the world's first self-sustained chain reaction, an event which is often accepted as the beginning of the nuclear age. Fermi and his associates had reached their goal by using a simple assembly of graphite, uranium metal, uranium oxide, and wood. The Chicago Pile was an experiment designed to prove the correctness of theoretical physics. Fermi and his team knew it would produce no useful power. In contrast, the Shippingport reactor was a complicated piece of machinery, generating large amounts of heat, requiring an elaborate cooling system, depending upon materials which only fifteen years earlier had been laboratory curiosities, and relying upon sophisticated components and instruments which did not exist when Fermi conducted his experiment. The purpose of this plant was to demonstrate the feasibility of producing useful energy from the atom for civilian application and to advance civilian power reactor technology. From conception through almost all of its operating life, Shippingport was the responsibility of Admiral H. G. Rickover, The Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, often supported by the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, made technical recommendations but he and his organization made the key decisions. He carried his responsibilities, however, far beyond the realm of technology. To him the purpose of Shippingport was much more than the demonstration of the engineering feasibility of using atomic power for commercial application: the station was to establish standards for training personnel and to apply procedures for safe operation. These were to set an example for industry.
Download or read book Shippingport Atomic Power Station Decommissioning written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Power Goes On Line written by William Beaver and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-05-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 26, 1958, the Shippingport, Pennsylvania, nuclear power station ushered in the age of the peaceful atom when it became the first nuclear power plant to go on-line. Throughout its more than three decades of operation, Shippingport encountered many of the crucial problems and issues that still confront nuclear power: policy formation, the role of government in technological innovation, technological management, environmental issues, breeder reactors, and the decommissioning of a nuclear plant. In an objective and nonprejudiced way, this book provides an accurate account of the important events in Shippingport's history and the role that they played in the future course of nuclear power. Unlike other general treatments of nuclear power, this volume presents a specific case history of one plant, with the major issues that influenced nuclear power analyzed in the context of both Shippingport and the nuclear industry as a whole. It draws on technical reports filed with the government, Congressional testimony by project head Hyman Rickover, interviews with participants in the Shippingport project, and relevant secondary sources to detail the history of one of the few successful government attempts to innovate energy technologies following World War II. The chapters trace the story of Shippingport from its beginnings, through construction, training, and management, to its final decommissioning. Other issues and influences, such as the AEC's reactor development policy and the plant's role in the adoption of the light water reactor, are also addressed. The book concludes with a general bibliography. This important new work will be a valuable resource for courses in the history of technology, public policy, technology and society, and technological management. It will also be an important addition to college, university, and public libraries.
Download or read book Shippingport Atomic Power Station written by C. F. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decommissioning of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Description of Shippingport Atomic Power Station Site and Surrounding Area with Radiation Background and Meteorological Data written by R. J. McAllister and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Description of the Shippingport Atomic Power Station written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Summary Report on the Assessment of Environmental Radioactivity in the Vicinity of Shippingport Atomic Power Station written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shippingport Atomic Power Station Operating Experience Developments and Future Plans written by Fleger, P. A. and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Light Water Breeder Reactor Program Operation of LWBR core in Shippingport atomic power station written by United States. Energy Research and Development Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review Atomic Energy Comm written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LIGHT WATER BREEDER REACTOR CORE OPERATION SHIPPINGPORT ATOMIC POWER STATION SHIPPINGPORT PENNSYLVANIA ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development of Shippingport Atomic Power Station Operating Procedures written by Reuel F. Stratton and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shippingport Nuclear Power Station written by Pennsylvania. Governor's Fact Finding Committee and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
