Digital Nuclear Reactor History Museum

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

Highlight picture from page

Army Package Power Reactor

1957

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

Highlight picture from page

Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment (OMRE)

1958

This film presents a pictorial summary of the fabrication and operation of the OMRE facility at the USAEC 's National Reactor Testing Station, Idah...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

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 ...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program: Manned Aircraft Progress Report

1961

This film reviews progress achieved in the Air Force aircraft nuclear propulsion program from 1956 to 1958.

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

The HWCTR and the Heavy Water Power Reactor Program

1962

This film depicts the growing need for nuclear power and describes the features of heavy water reactors for use in power production. The developmen...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

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. ...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

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 ...

Highlight picture from page

Operating Experience, Dresden

1964

This technical film reports on the routine, day-to-day operation of the Dresden Nuclear Power Station and points up the success of the boiling wate...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

No Greater Challenge

1969

Shows man's historic and growing hunger for water and a dramatic solution to this great challenge --- the Agro Industrial Complex. With the nuclear...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

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

Highlight picture from page

Admiral Rickover's 'Paper Reactor' memo

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

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

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...

Highlight picture from page

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-...

Highlight picture from page

The Yankee Rowe Story

Yankee Rowe was a pioneering privately financed LWR that laid the foundation of the current US nuclear fleet. Learn its story here.

Highlight picture from page

Clinch River Breeder Reactor Plant Project info packet

Various scanned pamphlets related to the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Plant Project

Highlight picture from page

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Pamphlet

San Onofre unit 1 was an early 450 MWe PWR that went into operation in 1968. This pamphlet summarizing the plant was issued before it was completed.

Highlight picture from page

Fermi 1 breeder reactor booklet from 1960: Atomic Power for Peace and Prosperity

A digitized booklet describing the non-profit companies formed to design, build, and operate the Fermi 1 sodium-cooled breeder reactor near Detroit.

Additional

Some of the things we've collected are posted externally without further commentary

Highlight picture from item

Calder Hall pamphlet

1961

This booklet explains the construction, operation, and significance of the U.K.'s first power reactor. More info

Highlight picture from item

Hallam Fuel Handing Equipment print

1963

Beautiful print of the Hallam SGR reactor hall, prominently including the fuel handling equipment. More info

Highlight picture from item

Hallam site overview print

1963

Color print showing an areal view of the Hallam Nuclear Power Facility site near Hallam, NE. More info

Highlight picture from item

Piqua Nuclear Generating Station

1963

Color print of the Piqua organic-cooled nuclear reactor in Piqua, OH. More info

Highlight picture from item

N.S. Savannah Illustrated with Deck Plans

1964-05

Brochure showing the nuclear-powered passenger/cargo ship, the N.S. Savannah, with deck plans. More info

Highlight picture from item

SNAP-10A Space Nuclear Power System

1965

Print of the SNAP-10A space nuclear power system. The reactor is on top and the cone is the heat radiator. More info

Highlight picture from item

The Douglas Point Nuclear Power Station

1965?

A 6-page 1960s-era pamphlet describing the Douglas Point CANDU nuclear power plant in Ontario, Canada.

Highlight picture from item

Centro Nuclear De Puerto Rico

1967?

Este es un folleto en español que describe el Centro Nuclear de Puerto Rico.

Highlight picture from item

Nuclear Programme In Korea 1985

1985-05-20

Brochure from the 5th Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference, which was held in Seoul, Korea, May 20-24, 1985

See Also