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The first Nuclear Station in the United States was established on May 26th, 1985. Its primary objective was to gain information and to make advances in reactor technology. Moreover, it had to be operable on the conventional utility network and with high availability at all times. Shippingport was created and operated under the auspices of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, whose authority included a substantial role within the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Its design team was headed by Alvin Radkowsky. The pressurized water reactor station operates on a simple principle and making primary and secondary heat transfer system. In the primary system ordinary water kept under presser to prevent it from boiling and is pumped through the reactor. This contains uranium fuel and control rods. Then the water flows through a heat exchanger and recalculated by the pump repeating the cycle. In the secondary system, which is a separate water system, steam is generated from heat exchanger flow through steam drum and then steam separators and through a turbine, which drives the generator then go through a condenser and then it pumped back to repeat the cycle.

The use of separate system prevents the possibility of transferring radioactivity from the primary system to the turbine and condenser. Water acts as the coolant and moderator and is kept at 2000 psia. The Shippingport power station had a single Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). A PWR uses ordinary water as coolant in its two main coolant loops. The primary loop is kept at a high pressure to prevent the water from boiling. Fission of nuclear fuel in the core heats the water in the primary loop, which is then pumped to a steam generator. The steam generator transfers the heat from the water in the primary loop to the water in the secondary loop. Since the secondary loop is not kept at the high pressure of the primary, the water can turn into steam and power a steam turbine.

The Main Parts of the Reactor were: 1. Reactor Pressure Vessel 2. Control Rods 3. Steam Generator 4. Heat Exchanger 5. Turbine The reactor core in this station included both seed material and blanket material. The blanket material is made of uranium alloy it could be also made of silicon, molybdenum and niobium. Uo2 used for seed material. The planet divided into three parts, reactor, steam generation and power generation in addition extensive instrumentation will provide amount of information never before available. Among the continuance of reading taken for water pressure, temperatures and flow rate. In keeping of the development and nature of the plant a large part of the instrumentation is provided for indicating and recording design information and unusual events. Typical of this type of instrumentation is the extensive system designed to detect fuel elements failures. The reactor then can go on full power. The plants generator was synchronize with utility system to connect power to an electrical grid being synchronized with the power network References http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2009/ph204/coleman1/ http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/pa/pa1600/pa1658/data/pa1658data.pdf http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/history/4569/it_happened_he re/471309