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REACTOR CHAMBER (BASF) FROM NORTH SHOWING NEUTRON SHIELD TANK AND REACTOR PIPING (LOCATION RRR) - Shippingport Atomic Power Station, On Ohio River, 25 miles Northwest of Pittsburgh, Shippingport, Beaver County, PA
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REACTOR CHAMBER (BASF) FROM NORTH SHOWING NEUTRON SHIELD TANK AND REACTOR PIPING (LOCATION RRR) - Shippingport Atomic Power Station, On Ohio River, 25 miles Northwest of Pittsburgh, Shippingport, Beaver County, PA
Description
Rickover, Hyman G; Duquesne Light Company; U.S. Department of Energy; Atomic Energy Commission; Westinghouse Electric Corporation; Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory; Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation; Dravo Corporation; Simpson, John W; Gray, John E; Barker, Joseph H; Iselin, Donald G; Combustion Engineering, Incorporated; Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory; Clark, Philip R; Leighton, David T; Mealia, John E; Raab, Harry F; Thomas, Charles R; Vaughn, James W; Union Oil Products, Wolverine Tube Division; Carter, Jimmy; U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Terminal Waste Disposal and Remedial Action, sponsor; Duncan, Francis, historian; Holl, Jack M, historian; Brehl, Dick, photographer; Vandeveer, Dave, photographer; Lever, Jack, photographer
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Beaver County; Shippingport
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,4-SHIP,1-63
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Written data based on U.S. Department of Energy booklet, "Shippingport: The Nation's First Atomic Power Station" (1983).
  • Significance: Operational in December, 1957, Shippingport Atomic Power Station 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.
  • Survey number: HAER PA-81
  • Building/structure dates: 1955- 1957 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1965-1977 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa1658.photos.135406p
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