- Title: F-5900v
- Summary: ATOMIC POWER AT SHIPPINGPORT: ATOMIC POWER. SHIPPINGPORT, PENNSYLVANIA. FIRST FULL SCALE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. CONSTRUCTION OF POWER PLANT.
- Description:00:00:10 - Presidential Seal 00:00:19 - President Eisenhower Ike makes speech on May 26, 1958 dedicating the Shippingport Atomic Power Station 00:01:27 - LOW ANGLE TRANSMISSION LINES, ELECTRIC TOWER. PANS TO ATOMIC POWER STATION, SHIPPINGPORT, PA. OHIO RIVER. 00:01:48 - AERIAL OVER FIRST NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 00:02:31 - WORKERS ENTERING TURBINE GENERATOR 00:02:48 - NUCLEAR PLANT TURBINE GENERATOR. PANS UP TO TRANSMISSION LINES. 00:03:11 - AERIAL OVER NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 00:03:25 - ILLUSTRATION SHOWING HOW PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR STATION OPERATES 00:06:01 - ILLUSTRATION SCHEMATIC PLAN OF SHIPPINGPORT NUCLEAR STATION 00:06:31 - NUCLEAR PLANT MEETING. ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS 00:06:40 - MONTAGE INTERIOR NUCLEAR POWER STATION FUEL ELEMENTS. PROCESSING OF FUEL MATERIALS & MANUFACTURING ELEMENTS. CONTROL ROD. CLIPBOARD-CARRYING NERD CHECKING FOR FAILED FUEL ELEMENTS 00:07:37 - ILLUSTRATION OF REACTOR VESSEL 00:08:34 - WORKERS CHECKING ZERO LEAKAGE PUMPS, LARGE VALVES. CU INSTRUMENTS MONITORING REACTIVITY. OPERATIONAL RADIATION MONITORING EQUIPMENT 00:09:06 - SCALE MODEL OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 00:11:11 - U.S. ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION BETTIS PLANT 00:11:19 - INTERIOR, REACTOR PHYSICS ANALYSIS. MATHMATICAL EQUATIONS ON BLACKBOARD. PAN GROUP OF MEN LISTENING INTENSELY. SMOKING PIPE. 00:11:39 - CU BLUEPRINTS. NERDS IN MEETING. URANIUM 00:12:07 - ILLUSTRATION: ENRICHED MATERIAL CALLED "SEED & BLANKET" SURROUNDING IT ACTIVATED BY THE SEED. SEED & BLANKET ASSEMBLIES 00:12:31 - WORKER TESTING MATERIALS FOR CORROSION RESISTANCE TO HIGH WATER TEMPERATURE. RADIATION STABILITY 00:12:41 - SCIENTISTS USING MASTER-SLAVE MANIPULATOR TO WORK WITH HAZARDOUS MATERIAL. TESTING ELEMENTS 00:13:14 - CU SMALL SQUARES OF METALLIC URANIUM BEING HANDLED WITH TWEEZERS 00:13:27 - SCIENTIST HEATING MATERIALS. STUDYING URANIUM DIOXIDE. UO2. USING HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCE, BLENDER IN STUDYING DANGEROUS MATERIALS 00:14:11 - MASTER-SLAVE MANIPULATOR PICKING UP HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 00:14:23 - CU SCIENTIST LOOKING INTO MICROSCOPE-LIKE INSTRUMENT. STUDYING THERMO-CONDUCTIVITY. MELTING POINTS. CHEMICAL BEHAVIOR. REACTION TO HOT WATER. PICKING UP ZIRCONIUM ALLOY WITH TWEEZERS 00:15:06 - WORKER WEARING HELMET WORKING WITH HAZARDOUS MATERIALS AT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT 00:15:44 - CU WORKER WEARING PROTECTIVE GLOVES SCOOPING OUT OXIDE POWDER, BLANKET FUEL 00:15:53 - ROOM FULL OF SCIENTISTS TESTING UO2. EXTENSIVE TESTING URANIUM OXIDE PELLETS. MAKING BLANKET TUBES. PROCESSING INCLUDES AGGLOMERATING, COMPACTING, SINTERING, & GRINDING. ASSEMBLING FUEL RODS & BUNDLES. WELDING ARGON ATMOSPHERE. 00:16:37 - SCIENTIST MAKING SEED ELEMENTS. URANIUM FUEL PLATES SANDWICHED BETWEEN 2 ZIRCONIUM ALLOY COVER PLATES. CRUCIFORM CHANNEL FOR THE CONTROL ROD MADE OF HAFNIUM 00:17:18 - PHYSICIST PERFORMING REACTOR PHYSICS CALCULATIONS. EARLY IBM COMPUTER 00:17:27 - ILLUSTRATION OF EXCESS REACTIVITY 00:17:43 - PHYSICIST PERFORMING EXPERIMENTAL CHECKS OF THE REACTOR PHYSICS CALCULATIONS. ILLUSTRATION FOLLOWS. 00:19:07 - CU MACHINES GAUGING OPERATING MECHANISMS. CONTROL ROOM 00:19:24 - CU CONTROL ROD SLIDING UPWARD 00:19:49 - WORKER CHECKING WALL OF GAUGES SHOWING CONTROL RODS POSITIONING. ECU ROD POSITIONING INDICATOR. DIGITAL READ-OUT 00:20:09 - MACHINES MEASURING NEUTRON FLUX DISTRIBUTION 00:20:21 - SCIENTISTS LEANING OVER NUCLEAR REACTOR 00:20:30 - CONTROL ROOM. CHECKING COOLANT FLOW & TEMPERATURE INSTRUMENTATION. 00:20:43 - ILLUSTRATION OF FLOW OF SEED & BLANKET FUEL THERMOCOUPLES. FUEL ASSEMBLY. CORE INLET WATER TEMPERATURE. COMPUTE POWER DISTRIBUTION IN VARIOUS REGIONS OF THE CORE 00:21:26 - CU CONTROL ROD INDICATORS MACHINES. PAN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CONTROL ROOM. TURBINE CONTROL PANEL. GENERATOR CONTROL PANEL 00:21:59 - ILLUSTRATION ON CONTROLLING INLET WATER TEMPERATURE 00:23:03 - ARCHITECTS LOOKING AT PLANS. DRAFTSMEN AT DRAFTING TABLES. CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS 00:23:16 - MARCH 1955, CONSTRUCTION CREWS BEGIN CLEARING SITE. 00:23:25 - AERIAL OVER NUCLEAR POWER PLANT UNDER CONSTRUCTION 1956. CONCRETE SHIELDING. CONTAINER CHAMBERS. CANAL SECTION 00:23:45 - MONTAGE CONSTRUCTION OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT. CONSTRUCTION WORKERS. 150 TON PRESSURE NUCLEAR REACTOR VESSEL BEING MOVED INTO PLACE. INSTALLING UNITS. PLACING FUEL CORE IN THE REACTOR. MEN SEALING CANNED MOTOR PUMPS 00:25:07 - TURBINE GENERATOR OUTDOORS 00:25:29 - AERIAL OVER COMPLETED NUCLEAR PLANT 00:25:50 - INTERIOR OPERATION CONTROL ROOM. DIVIDED INTO THREE PARTS: REACTOR CONTROL, TURBINE CONTROL, & GENERATOR CONTROL. REACTOR, STEAM GENERATION & POWER GENERATION 00:26:11 - EXTENSIVE INSTRUMENTATION. CONTINUOUS READINGS BEING TAKEN FOR FLOW RATES, WATER PRESSURES, TEMPERATURES, POWER LEVEL IN THE REACTOR 00:26:27 - NERD CHECKING FOR FUEL ELEMENT FAILURES 00:26:50 - MAN ON TELEPHONE IN FRONT OF CONTROL PANELS. CONTROL ROOM. WORKERS CHECKING CONTROL PANELS. 00:27:20 - ILLUSTRATION SHOWING KILOWATTS GOING TO FULL POWER. OUTPUT INCREASING 00:27:45 - EXTERIOR-NIGHT PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA. NEON SIGNS, DIMLINGS, HERTZ RENT-A-CAR, GIMBELS 00:28:00 - MEN IN NUCLEAR PLANT CONTROL ROOM 00:28:14 - TWO BUSINESSMEN IN MEETING. PIPE-SMOKING BUSINESSMEN 00:28:23 - INTERIOR & AERIAL OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1958
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: F-5900v