Word: shippingport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extend its reach and free itself of the need to refuel ships if nuclear power plants could be squeezed into submarines' tiny hulls. Rickover's work eventually spawned not only the first nuclear-powered sub, the Nautilus, launched in January 1955, but the first civilian nuclear power reactor, at Shippingport, Pa. Today more than 150 of 554 U.S. naval vessels steam under nuclear power; American submarines can stay submerged for months and traverse the waters beneath the polar ice caps...
...industry started off small: in 1957 the Government beached a submarine reactor at Shippingport, Pa., and converted it into a power station with an output of 60 MW. The earliest American nuclear facilities were built by private companies, such as General Electric and Westinghouse, as loss leaders to convince utilities that atomic power was the future. They needed little convincing. By the end of 1967 the U.S. had 28 times as much nuclear capacity on order as it did in operation. The capacity of plants under construction increased from...
...then can any nuclear nation get rid of the rods? U.S. nuclear plants have temporarily been storing their freshly removed fuel rods in on-site "swimming pools." But 27 years after the first commercial reactor went on line in Shippingport, Pa., no permanent disposal system has been adopted. The pools at America's older reactors are getting crowded, and plant owners as well as the public are becoming worried. Concedes Carl Walske, president of the Atomic Industrial Forum: "The public's chief concern about nuclear energy revolves around the waste problem...