Film digitization announcement: Operating Experience, Dresden
A 1964 film about an early BWR
By Dr. Nick Touran, Ph.D., P.E., 2024-11-23, Reading time: 4 minutes
Announcing another digitized film, this time on the operating experience of Dresden, the first commercially financed BWR. This reactor was a very important step in the commercialization of BWRs, as GE put in a lot of their own money to get it built, at considerable risk.
Catalog description: 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 water nuclear-electric power station. Dresden's four years of operating experience are reviewed, and the power station is examined in terms of dependability, safety, ease of operation, and ease of maintenance
This is film 88206 in our catalog.
This digitization was sponsored by an anonymous donor.
Additional Dresden Links
- 1959 AEC Annual Reports — lots of good info on status of PDRP and Dresden and BWRs and stuff. 1700 pages.
- Dresden Atomic Power Station Construction Video (1958)
- Dresden BWR early in BWR development history
- Dresden Wikipedia page
See Also
- Our Digital Reactor History Museum
- Our Reactor Development History Page
- Our Old Videos page with a running list of the available and yet-to-be-scanned films out there.
If you’re interested in helping to get some of these scanned, check out our digitization GoFundMe and/or contact us!
About Dr. Nick Touran, Ph.D., P.E.
Nick Touran is a nuclear engineer with expertise in advanced nuclear reactor design, reactor development, and the history of nuclear power. After getting a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, he spent 15 years at TerraPower in Seattle working on core design, business development, software development, and configuration management. He is now a consultant involved in advising and assisting numerous reactor development and deployment efforts. He is also a licensed professional engineer in Nuclear Engineering.
Nick has been active in public education around nuclear since 2006 as the founder of whatisnuclear.com. He has spoken at numerous institutions, schools, and public events, and was once featured on NPR’s Science Friday. Recently, he has coordinated the digitization of over 45 historical nuclear films.
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