Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory

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Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory

reactor, Shippingport, Pennsylvania, United States

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…in naval reactors, and the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory of the naval reactor program was assigned to build a civilian prototype at Shippingport, Pennsylvania. This reactor, the largest of the power-reactor prototypes, went online in 1957; it is often hailed as the first commercial-scale reactor in the United States.
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…in naval reactors, and the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory of the naval reactor program was assigned to build a civilian prototype at Shippingport, Pennsylvania. This reactor, the largest of the power-reactor prototypes, went online in 1957; it is often hailed as the first commercial-scale reactor in the United States.
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