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Reactor containments
Marlin:
--- Quote from: BuddyThePug on Aug 31, 2005, 07:54 ---Your answer is incorrect. SONGS 1 was orginally built with the same famous white semi-spherical steel containment as D1G prototype, and several other reactors of the early 1960s.
There was, however, a commercial power nuclear reactor built with no pressure rated containment, west of the Rockies. Built before SONGS1. That's all the hint before Labor Day.
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Yes it was built with it but I think you will find that it was not in the original design.
HydroDave63:
--- Quote from: Marlin on Sep 01, 2005, 07:38 ---Yes it was built with it but I think you will find that it was not in the original design.
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And where would we *find* that? It was built with one, and commercial plants built almost a decade earlier, like Shippingport, were designed and built with a containment. What causes you to think SONGS1 was originally designed with NO containment?
Marlin:
--- Quote from: HydroDave63 on Sep 01, 2005, 09:59 ---And where would we *find* that? It was built with one, and commercial plants built almost a decade earlier, like Shippingport, were designed and built with a containment. What causes you to think SONGS1 was originally designed with NO containment?
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Sorry, probably a bad question, I got this in the early 80's while working there from a reliable source. I declined to post other trivia questions because I could not find current information I should have done the same here. I would have liked to pose questions or post info on the S1W prototype building/containment but there is no source I could find.
Shippingport may be a bad comparisson as it was done in conjunction with the Navy as the first commercial power plant, and we know how conservative the Navy is with thier safety systems. I am curious about the date that containments were first required by the AEC/NRC I couldn't find that one either.
I promise to be more carefull with future posts.
Already Gone:
Sorry trivia bufs but Shippingport was never a commercial power plant. It did put power on the grid, but it did not have a license for commercial operation. The first commercial power plant was Dresden 1, although Indian Point 1 claims this title also.
Dresden 1 is the one in the ball, as was Big Rock Point and some other old small units were.
Marlin:
I've always heard Dresden is the first commercially owned and operated plant but Shippingport was the first commercial plant. Licenses are for regulation not commerce, they did sell the power.
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