Energy · 1957

Pressurized water reactor

Shippingport adapts the submarine reactor design for civilian power.

Hyman Rickover's naval program powered USS Nautilus in 1955, and the same PWR concept ran Shippingport in Pennsylvania from December 1957. PWRs became the dominant reactor type, about two thirds of the world's roughly 440 reactors.

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