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This station was closed and dismantled less than 7 years from the making of this video.

With sodium being a low melting point metal it reminds me a lot of liquid gallium and mercury when it’s a liquid, like all the other alkali metals sodium is such a gorgeous metal when unoxidized!

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This is fantastic material. Thanks for the effort. I know how much fun you're having, but this is really valuable to all of us in "the space".

13.9 CPS, not great, not terrible.

My Father was a manager here.... it was sad when it finally closed...

PR needs a new reactor, the cost of energy is crazy.

Happy Birthday What is Nuclear! I've enjoyed your channel, and appreciate your effort to post these archival films for all to see on Y.T. Thanks!

so useful for my classes of reactor physics

Great story! I didn't realise you did pamphlets too. Many years ago a friend who knew I was in to nuclear said he had a cool pamphlet about UK reactors so he gave it to me. I'll dig it up and see if I can scan it for you. It's a bit of an oddball though because it has reactor cutaways printed on transparent cellophane so I'm not sure how well they will scan.

It's so awesome that you are making this incredible content available!

Nice presentation.

Just a thought, zirconium is use to house the uranium oxide. It’s a good material except when when cooling water is lost. Why not use zirconium oxide. Tough as hell material.

Glaring omission of the MSRE. EDIT: Ahh, took all of three seconds after commenting to see that it was produced in 1958 - design work on the MSRE didn't even start until 1960. Whoops.

I like at 3:24 when he says "building a reactor takes many months of planning." If only it was the easy today! Really enjoy watching these old films.

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I can never forget the voice of this person when I was young! Do you know the name of this narrator? Thanks!

Hmmm ... nuclear reactors built along side farms. Well that should make plausible deniability easy... everyone gets a dose, regardless of geographic proximity

🥸 So skipping a step by running the trans uranic caustic acid mixtures directly in the reactor, caused a melt down after all. Oh well, back to producing weapons grade materials the old fashioned way... 🤓 But what about those kids in Simi valley with leukemia? 🥸 What about them? Plausible denyability, there is a rocket engine shop down the road...

Ladies and gentelmen the most expensive means to generate electricity ever invented. But... it does make quite a bit of weapons grade materials for nuclear bombs, as intended.

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.

Uraaaaanium fever

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You just poisoned 🤢 the water for the whole town chief.

Propoganda Iz so FUN ~ in retrospect... How come 3rd WORLD iz Alwayz illustrated so backwardz & poor ... Hum? - somethingz No Change aah - COUZ 🇨🇦

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.

I read that K salts have 280 per minute....

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.

And after living most of my life in Idaho it's nothing but a waste dump

(1:07) Getting caught on film picking your nose immortalized for posterity. 😉

A little spicy, nothing too hot. ;)

DRC?

Kryptonite...

someone get him radaway 💀😭

Just impressive: I lived very close to BONUS back in the day....

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.

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?

"They would have had to have actually believed that the tsars would allow peace...!"

I would love to get to use those robot arms.

Bowties and slide rules, wild.

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)

let me just eyeball this neutron beam onto my sample 12:23

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.

Peaceful use my ass. That reactor was used to generate other materials for the weapons program. Electricity just happen to help pay for it.

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.