Power and Promise Part 3

Description

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. The film shows 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. This film is semi-technical and is directed at high school and college level audiences.

Collection

Records of the Atomic Energy Commission

Series

Moving Images Relating to Atomic Energy