
Shippingport Atomic Power Station
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Sep 30, 2026
Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident
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24:16AdamHOST
And again, four light bulbs is whatever, uh, 1957 SM one reactor begins to work at Fort Belvoir in Virginia, Belvoir, maybe in Virginia.
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24:31AdamHOST
Um, it begins supplying electricity to the army based power grid and, In 1957, 1958-ish, you have a place called the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania that becomes the first full-scale commercial plant that provides basically large amounts of electricity to the Pittsburgh civilian power grid.
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24:53AdamHOST
So now we're moving to, we were playing around with it in the early 50s, 50, I mean, 51, right? Less than a decade later, we are building a power station that's able to produce power for this Pittsburgh – excuse me, power grid.
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25:10AdamHOST
So – Atomic energy is moving very, very fast at this point in time, and there's not a large selection of players.
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Short Science Fiction Collection 052-Various
Sep 24 · 1 Mention
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64:26Ian BradfordNARRATOR
Outsider policy.
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64:28Ian BradfordNARRATOR
Send us to Oak Ridge or Argonne, Shippingport.
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64:30Ian BradfordNARRATOR
Send new people down here." "That doesn't leave you much time," I said.
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64:35Ian BradfordNARRATOR
"Time enough," said Danny.