| | 1 | Title: | Foster Wheeler straight tube steam generator | Add | | | Summary: | One of the two Foster Wheeler straight tube steam generators being placed in a boiler room in the Shippingport Atomic Power Station. Each generator contained 2,096 stainless steel tubes, with each tube having an outer diameter of one-half inch. The heads of the steam generator each had 18 inch pipe connections to the secondary system. | | | | Source: | http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/PA1658/ | | | | Reference: | U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Duquesne Light Company, and International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. The Shippingport Pressurized Water Reactor. Reading, Mass: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co, 1958, pages 33-34. | | | | Date: | 10 August 1958 | | | | Subject(s): | Shippingport Atomic Power Station | Nuclear engineering | Naval Reactors | | | | Type: | Image | | | | Format: | JPEG | | | | Similar items: | Find |
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