What Is Nuclear has, through the years, collected, funded, and/or coordinated the digitization of forgotten and unique nuclear reactor history artifacts in order to preserve them for educational and archival purposes. This page contains a list of them all.

Films

Army Package Power Reactor

1957

For high-school and college-level audiences, this semitechnical film documents the inception, design, construction, initial operation, and dedicati...

Naval Research Laboratory Reactor

1958

The film presents a guided tour through the Naval Research Laboratory's research reactor facility in Washington, DC. All visible components are pic...

Atomic Power and the United States

1959

This is a nontechnical film for intermediate through college-level audiences. It summarizes activities of both the government and private industry ...

Restoration of the NRX Reactor

1959

This film discusses the 14-month repair and restoration of the NRX Reactor at Chalk River, Ontario, following a rapid super operational power level...

Roundup

1960

This film describes the use of radiation to eradicate the screwworm fly in the southeastern United States, an insect pest that had caused large los...

Remote Repair and Modification of the HRE-2 Core Vessel

1961

Illustrates the remote repair and modification of the HRE-2 core vessel, following the formation of two holes which permitted transfer of fuel to t...

PM-1 Nuclear Power Plant

1962

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 t...

Hallam Nuclear Power Facility

1963

This film shows the setting and location of the reactor built jointly by USAEC and the Consumers' Public Power District of Nebraska. An explanation...

Nuclear Energy Goes Rural

1963

This film presents the background, planning, and construction of the Elk River Reactor for Minnesota's Rural Cooperative Power Association. After t...

Radioisotopes: Safe Servants of Industry

1963

With emphasis on safety, this film surveys the widespread uses of radioisotopes in industry. Animated explanations of the principles involved in ra...

The Nuclear Ship Savannah

1964

This nontechnical, documentary film, for junior-high-school through college-level audiences, covers the historical background, and the design, cons...

Hallam, Operating Experience

1964

This describes the operation of the 79-megawatt electric Hallam Nuclear Power Facility which is powered by a 252-megawatt sodium-graphite reactor. ...

Operating Experience, Indian Point

1964

This technical film is the story of the design, construction, and operation of the Indian Point power station of the Consolidated Edison Co. of New...

Operating Experience, Yankee

1964

This technical film relates various plant design features and performance data of the nuclear power station operated by the Yankee Atomic Electric ...

The New Power

1965

This nontechnical film, for all audience levels, tells how the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho is furthering the USAEC's quest for econom...

BONUS for Puerto Rico

1967

The film describes the construction and initial operation of a small, unique nuclear power station, the Boiling Nuclear Superheat Reactor, in the p...

In Search of a Critical Moment

1970

This film tells the story of the Zero Power Plutonium Reactor (ZPPR), which was a special test reactor in Idaho designed to supply information esse...

ASTR TOWER EXPERIMENT

December, 1958

Coverage of the transfer of the Convair Airborne Shielded Test Reactor and NB-36 crew compartments from Ft. Worth, Texas, to Oak Ridge, Tennessee N...

Other

In addition to films, we like to collect and scan various pamphlets, booklets, and other things

Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' memo

Rickover's famous speech about the distinction between academic (paper) reactors and practical reactors.

Hallam Sodium Graphite Reactor photos

Hundreds of photographs from the decommissioning of the Hallam Nuclear Power Facility, a Sodium Graphite Reactor that operated in Nebraska from 19...

Aqueous Homogeneous Research Reactors

Let me tell you about Aqueous Homogeneous Research Reactors. These were reactors with fluid fuel: an aqueous solution of uranium. Aka "water-boiler...

Construction of the Sodium Reactor Experiment

The Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) was a prototype reactor 27 miles NW of LA that served as a technology demonstration of sodium-cooled, graphite-...