I work at this plant today. It's crazy to see the same equipment I operate daily in a 60 year old film. Now the reactor building is gone, all that's left is a lawn with the reactor underneath.
The optimism in this movie is so beautiful. Makes me really sad for what actually came to pass. We could be living in a world of energy abundance right now if things had gone differently than they did.
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1:40 - A heavy water solution of uranyl sulfate, copper sulfate, and sulfuric acid on the low pressure side. I bet you that solution is completely non-corrosive. I wonder how it would be possible to eat through metal?
*Catalog description:* A filmed story of the PM-1 nuclear power plant (a pressurized water system), a joint project of the USAEC and the U. S. Air Force, which supplies the power for the radar and space heating of a remote Air Defense Command radar station in Wyoming. The film breaks down the types and contents of 16 air transportable packages, a total weight of about 30,000 pounds: reactor, steam generator, waste tank, heat-transfer apparatus, control room, turbogenerator, etc. Details are given on major components and the design and operation of the system by information on: 741 nuclear fuel tubes in 7 fuel bundles, the "flow" of primary water, the secondary water, details on the makeup of the fuel element tubes, criticality testing, nature of the control rods, tests to determine heat transfer and flow characteristics. The film recounts the airlift of the packages, erection and assembly of the power plant, the work to achieve criticality, and the varied safety controls.
It is a pity that the film we presented exclusively at Dr. Modesto Iriarte Technological Museum former BONUS Nuclear Plant property of Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority has been leaked and now is all over the World.
We have Biotic Oil and Mineral Oil (Non-Biotic Oil) on Earth .. Mineral Oils and molecular methane and ethane & many benzene type chains can be found on Titan and other Solar System objects
Thank you for digitizing these old celluloid gems. I thoroughly enjoy watching them. They could do so much back then. And pretty much all without computers.
My pleasure! They did apply some of the earliest digital computers to reactor design. The Atomic Energy Commission had a big one in the office in the mid-1950s. They were just huge mainframes.
@@whatisnuclear Wow, I had no idea! Thanks for imparting that knowledge on me. But of course still very limited compared to what we have today^^ And my favourite video of the lot is the "New Power - The story of the NRTS"
Is it fair conclusion that bowties, ties, cigarets are required to get things done? Somehow building things fast was possible back then (and safe and smart enough). Why have we lost this skill?
@@whatisnuclear- The whole team needs to wear them. Also, you have to smoke a pipe while sitting in the bath reading a newspaper. That’s like the old version of Jira.
um radiation conpletely messes up the dna and brain during development... so does teflon, emf and hormones... plus schools didnt care to actually teach us anything over the last 100 years or so. much less critical thinking, science, chemistry or coding... most of the population doesnt even know nuclear exists or what it is... or how safe its not at the current time. workers are constantly exposed to 200-300cpm or more. and highly indoctrinated.
There are a few museums around where you can play with them, picking up marbles and stuff. If you're ever in the Snake River valley during summer, check out the EBR-I museum!
Actually those troggs stole a crystal generator from one individual around the 1960s and decided to hide it/only use on subs so they could complain about no having energy to back up their wars/gains. They also enjoy call of duty (lesser breeds)
I believe this is physicist/chemist Warren Elliot Henry doing the vacancy defect work on gamma phase Fe2O3 at 12:15. The relevant papers are "Intradomain Magnetic Saturation and Magnetic Structure of γ-Fe2O3" Phys. Rev. 101, 1253, '56, and "Reduction of Saturation Magnetization of γ-Fe2O3 and Fe3O4 by Pile Irradiation" J. Appl. Phys. '59. Along with Robert Hein he established that uranium is a superconductor in '57 - "Superconductivity of Uranium" Phys. Rev. 107, 1517.
@@tireballastserviceofflorid7771 yup, Hanford B was the first high-power reactor on the planet, made during WWII in 1943, a full 20 years before this reactor was brought online.
With all that concrete and steel, what could be the total weight of such a plant? Surely a few thousand tons. I don't really see this as transportable by air to remote bases.
This one was a prototype not actually intended to fly. They did use the info they learned here and made one that was actually air-lifted, assembled, and operated: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T9S1P54n1FA.html
This reactor was often cited in one of my undergraduate nuclear engineering textbooks “Nuclear Reactor Engineering” by Glasstone and Sesonske. It’s still on my bookshelf even though I retired a few years ago. One of my professors was a consultant to Yankee. My senior project involved writing a FORTRAN code for evaluating incore detector signals for Yankee Rowe.
I'm sure that FORTRAN code is still in use at some other reactor. We use FORTRAN codes that were originally written in FORTRAN IV (1960s!) to this day.
@whatisnuclear Thank you for this, and for your web site in general. I’m currently working on the fourth book of an alternate history series (the ‘Republic of Texas Navy’ series) centered around an independent Republic of Texas. The story line is currently moving towards the end of WW2, and then there will be a new story arc set during the Cold War / Space race era. One of the technologies I’m considering having the Texans develop is Thorium-based nuclear power, due to the anti-proliferation advantages as they were seen at that time. This information will help me to make that more believable.
Are you talking about the nuclear reactor? This is about the nuclear reactor design that had a disaster that happened in Idaho in 1960. The reactor was a test of the design to provide power for the DEW line. Distant Early Warning system. Watching for Russian bombers flying over the North Pole. This was before spy satellites. DEW line was no longer needed after spy satellites were invented. This disaster was kept top secret until the 1990s. You can look up the disaster by searching for "Army nuclear reactor disaster Idaho."
“12 months from the first fell tree the structure was finished” Can we take a moment and imagine any government project today being done in 12 months….
LCOE is not an appropriate metric for comparing nuclear to renewables because it doesn't include systems costs like the cost of storage that would be required to make a full renewable system. doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.124905
We're waiting for the formation of the world government.. then we're going full steam with all the nuclear technologies we've had under our hat since the 60's.
I studied this core design in college and used its design parameters for a senior design project. It has smaller diameter fuel rods than what is typically used in '70s era 3000 MWt reactors. It also does not have control rods in the fuel bundles. If you look at the fuel bundle at 6:50 you will see the bundle is not exactly square, missing some fuel rods on two sides. This was to allow space between the bundles for cruciform shaped control blades.
