" THE STORY OF SHIPPINGPORT " SHIPPINGPORT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PENNSYLVANIA ATOMS FOR PEACE 28792
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- This color film likely dating to the late 1950s, “Power and Promise-The Story of Shippingport” shows the development of Pennsylvania's Shippingport Atomic Energy Plant from the groundbreaking ceremonies on Labor Day 1954, when President Eisenhower waved an electronic wand in Denver to trigger a power shovel into operation at the site to dedication of the plant by the President. In addition to the construction problems, the film details the complexities of building the nuclear reactor and moving it into place through the steel shell. The film celebrates the "Atoms for Peace" concept throughout.
Film opens, opening credits, animated segment (0:06). Map situating ‘Shippingport,’ Pennsylvania town on Ohio River (0:45). Various aerial view of the power plant (0:49). Places that use nuclear power: City lit up at night, industrial plant, kitchen in family home (1:11). Exterior of coal processing plant, animated segment showing how fossil fuel industry produces energy in furnaces (1:24). Sign for AEC Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory, shots around facility, scientists going over plans and designs (2:33). Story of USS Nautilus (SSN-571), starting point for development of reactor for Shippingport (PWR) (2:55). Pittsburgh City skyline, Fort Pitt Bridge (3:20). Shot of President Eisenhower (1954) inaugurating Shippingport Atomic Power Plant by waving radioactive wand in a Denver television studio (3:41). Bulldozers, other large vehicles help with clearing site and building the new power plant (3:49). Animated segment explaining nucleonics (4:35). Scientists use IBM 704, other early IBM mainframe computers for calculations and collecting data (5:00). Tests conducted to see how radiation affects metals, use of new technology and machinery (5:13). Tests conducted in complex testing stands (5:53). Scientists test new design features on full scale reactor mockup; Animated segment explaining “seed and blanket reactor,” design to be used for Shippingport reactor model as “new furnace for the atomic age” (6:07). Switch back to live action, close-up of one blanket-fuel assembly from reactor; Process of producing blanket-fuel assembly (8:48): Close-up highly refined natural uranium oxide powder stored in canister; Process of binding powder together in industrial mixers and binders, fed to stamping press to form into pellets for reactors, further fired to increase their density (9:11). Processing and production of zirconium metal tubes to hold pellets (9:46). Quality control and checking of tubes (11:50). Zirconium caps made by automated machine, stamped with ID number, pellets assembled into tube (12:10). Tubes welded to tube sheets in special chamber using fusion welding in helium atmosphere, holes drilled, bundles checked (14:08). Producing the core seed (14:53): Uranium fuel in form of sheets and not pellets (15:00). Cross-section of core seed (15:50). Seed cluster (16:06). Close-up Shippingport reactor, location of core within reactor (16:35). Animated segment detailing water pump (17:13). Men meticulously assemble special pumps; Shot of interior of pump (17:40). Animated segment detailing stainless steel heat exchangers (18:28). Assembly of straight tube heat exchanger (18:45). U-Shape heat exchanger (19:07). 153-ton pressure vessel made to enclose the reactor core (19:23). Back at Shippingport, concrete poured at site for base of reactor; To safeguard against releasing radioactive material to atmosphere all components of plant are in four welded chambers/ steel tanks (20:03). Aerial view of plant under construction, getting sense of plant layout (21:07). Cranes carefully lower components of reactor through very small access openings of the plant chambers (21:30). Engineers build pipeline on site to provide water, pump house on water’s edge, waste disposal store tanks (22:23). Crane lowers pressure chamber (23:00). Skilled workers pass through chambers via air locked doors; Weld pipes and connect different parts (23:38). Final core assembly; Installation of instrumentation to record data (24:39). Fuel assemblies lowered into core cage; Finalized core transported and lowered into chamber, engineers in white uniforms observe, testing (25:29). Close-up labyrinth of pipes, electrical wires (26:58). Eisenhower televised broadcast remarks dedicating Shippingport (27:37). Reactor at Shippingport, animated segment showing “atoms working for peace” (28:14). Final shots tracing electrical cables sending energy to power city (28:53). Closing credits (29:16). Film ends (29:20).
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My late father was the project manager for the building of the reactor. I was hoping that he might show up in the film. While he didn't, I know he was there.
My great grandfather Vince Flordice worked on the actual cooling tower themselves, i wish i still had the pictures. He passed away from cancer a few years ago, wonderful man and wonderful video.
Shippingport did not have cooling towers. You may be thinking about Beaver Valley that was literally right next to Shippingport. Both Beaver Valley and Shippingport Atomic power station are in Shippingport Pa.
look up EEOICA program..
I am in it.
If he had certain cancer as a survivor you may be eligible for compensation.
I think our city still uses that computer to process payroll. 😆
21:40 They predicted youtube without realizing it haha
I heard that!
Haha. Beat me to it ... It's funny (or frightening) how much the phrase stuck out to me.
lol
I didn’t think the original music score, at critical parts of the film, with it’s alarming tone was very helpful.
IMO ..if every person on this project was not a graduate of ADM Rickover, IT WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN DONE :)
The reactor plant was owned by Naval Reactors. But the rest of the plant was owned and the entire plant run by the local electric company. Other than the Naval officers that provided oversight, everyone else was a civilian.
@@clarkkent9080 Please understand that I was mostly referring to the use of the enlisted navy operators. Officers are NOT reactor operators !! ...ET1(N) 88-94
@@kbarrett63 Other than the Naval Officers that oversaw operations (1 per shift) there were no other current navy personnel on site. Except for when Rickover showed up, then there was a cluster that surrounded him.
The plant started operations in 1957. The USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was the world's first operational nuclear vessel and became operational in 1954 so there were not a lot of experienced ex nuclear navy personnel to operate the facility until the mid 1960s.
Actually, in the early 70s, when commercial nuclear began to take off, the Shippingport experienced reactor operators were enticed ($$$) to "jump ship" and go commercial and the plant almost had to shutdown due to the lack of certified personnel. Rickover told the utility to do whatever it took to keep operating. Afterward the utility would no longer hire ex-navy personnel as they felt they had no roots in the area that would make them want to stay. They also gave a $10,000 per year bonuses to reactor operators. Just think what $10,000 would buy in the early 1970s when a 1970 Cadillac started at ~ $6,000. As far as I know, the $10,000 bonus is still in place today at commercial facilities and very few have adjusted it for inflation.
One of the original reactor operators would later become my manager at my last job.
The greatest generation
TH-cam heat exchanger, huh?
I knew it... we're all just a part of the machine.
My father, Harold Smith, was the foreman of the gang of ironworkers out of Ironworkers Local #3 in Pittsburgh who set the reactor in place and I was an apprentice in the gang. One of my treasured photos is of my dad and me-and the rest of the gang of course-setting the world’s first commercial nuclear reactor while all the big shots from Westinghouse watched.
Is there any waste still stored there today ?
I started working at Shippingport as a radiation control technician in 1974 when I was 18 years old. Now that the statutes of limitations has expired, boy do I have stories about that place.
What went on there at Shippingport?
Stories please
@@user-jt5vm3mi1w I’ll start off at the beginning;
I and 12 others attended training in a building outside the facility fence. The study area was a double wide trailer next to the training building. The trailer had an office area for the 2 instructors with the rest of the trailer open with desks for the trainees. One very hot Friday afternoon in August a few of the trainees were in the office with the instructors, discussing various subjects. The lights were off and the cheap plastic blinds were closed but the blinding sun still illuminated the room. I don’t recall how the subject came up but someone stated that burning tea smells like marijuana. A cigarette was quickly produced, emptied, and refilled with the contents from a tea bag. With ends rolled and one side lit, it was passed around for each person to evaluate the claim. Just then, the facility Training Manager opened the door, stopped dead in his tracks, and after a few seconds turned around and left without saying a word. The majority ruled that it was best to “let-it-be” and not try to explain. That weekend, the company “Men-in-Black” searched the entire trailer with interrogation of all involved the following Monday. Apparently they believed the truth because the issue was dropped. And yes it does smell like......
@@gregorymalchuk272 see below
The training manager could best be described as an Ed Rooney (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) and just about as well liked. The limited bathroom accommodations of the Training Building necessitated the addition of port-a-potties. Someone who apparently had experience in cow tipping observed the training manager using one of these “blue-houses” and utilized their past expertise. Needless to say the training manager had a very shi*y day. We never found out who the big tipper was.
What was the significance of the unmanned bulldozer and the start of the plant with the ‘neutron rod’ ? Was it just ceremonial or did it really accomplish something ?
Just ceremonial. It used to be tradition to put into motion various nuclear groundbreakings in such a way. JFK did it at Hanford, Mrs. Nixon did it for laying the keel of the Savannah, etc.
East Liverpool Ohio here!!
Enjoyed.. Thank you!!
It’s sounds kinda weird, to de-aerate water H2O
Free oxygen in water causes corrosion in boilers piping heat exchanger s.
@@MitzvosGolem1 Thanks !
@@65gtotripsBeware of shady attorneys handling it. Guy in Buffalo is ng.
@@MitzvosGolem1 Don’t understand what you’re saying
@@65gtotrips sorry wrong person
Scope. *Perry* Scope.
The pioneering caution seems reasonable.
The Universe is CCC superficially in QM-TIME Completeness, and Flashed Fusion-Fission Form locally. Time to reiterate the experimental knowledge aquired from these practical experiences with the technology and choose the optimal solution to saving the planet.
Far out, solid reactor fuels look like such a pain in the arse ...
That's why we don't do it like that anymore. (actually just a few years later) Active fuel assembles are made just like the "blanket" units... stacks of pellets.
what if reactor water leaks into the electric part of the pumps, i hope they have backup pumps
They are water-lubricated canned-motor pumps. The motors are designed to be immersed in primary water for the duration of their design lives.
This guy I know his great grandfather named ocknod ladin bin in the middle east watched this video and many others that the USA made and tried to make a nuke weapon from it.
Thats is a steam pump engine no need for burning anything .they cant even tell cause sell a good lie they did and are horrible simply minded beings for it.not human complexity we got we dont need complications by caricature .Whos gitting Publicly elicited for it The Guy That stops paying for their feee ride .Consept intent to be assumed so from conseption power companies on its face
What??????
Seriously, get your meds adjusting properly.