The New Power — The Story of the National Reactor Testing Station (now INL)

This is a 1965 summary of the National Reactor Testing Station, known today as the Idaho National Lab. See: https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2023-07-04-the-new-power-film-about-nrts.html

Catalog summary: This nontechnical film, for all audience levels, tells how the National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho is furthering the USAEC's quest for economic nuclear power. Most of the more than 40 experimental nuclear reactors built, being built, or planned there are described either historically or currently, including the Navy's prototypes for the submarine Nautilus and aircraft carrier Enterprise; the internationally known testing reactor complex (MTR, ETR, ATR); the Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, the Army's mobile low power nuclear plant (ML-1); and the importance of breeding nuclear fuel as authorized by the two Experimental Breeder Reactor complexes, EBR-I and EBR-II. Also discussed are the USAEC's leading reactor safety programs SPERT and STEP (Special Power Excursion Reactor Test and Safety Test Engineering Program). The film also explains the basic principles of power reactor construction and operation in an animated sequence that is also available as a separate film titled, "Basic Principles of Power Reactor Operation.

Digitized by whatisnuclear.com. Thanks to Ross Koningstein for his help making this happen.

Courtesy of the National Archives
NAID 88194
1965 Atomic Energy Commission video

Contents:

00:00 Intro and pioneering
01:14 Intro to the NRTS
03:18 Scarcity of fossil fuel
04:38 Basics of nuclear reactors
10:37 Different design options
11:56 Central facilities and contractors
11:56 Central facilities and contractors
12:40 Destructive testing and BORAX-1
13:50 BORAX-III and IV and V
14:50 SPERT (I, II, III, IV)
17:23 Influence on BWRs and PWRs
18:05 Military reactor intro
18:55 S1W Submarine prototype
19:30 A1W Large Ship Reactor
20:00 S5G Natural Circulation Reactor
20:12 Gas Cooled Reactor Experiment (GCRE)
20:53 Mobile Low Power Reactor (ML-1)
21:51 Organic Moderated Reactor Experiment (OMRE)
22:18 Materials Testing Reactor (MTR)
25:46 Advanced Reactivity Measurement Facility (ARMF)
26:25 Engineering Test Reactor (ETR)
26:54 Advanced Test Reactor (ATR)
29:03 Transient Reactor Test Facility (TREAT)
30:25 Test Area North (TAN) and TSF shops
31:40 Initial Engineering Test Facility (IET)
32:06 Testing of SNAP-10 space reactor
32:42 Safety Test Engineering Program (STEP)
32:52 Loss of Fluid Test (LOFT)
33:04 710 Research Reactor Experiment
33:20 Experimental Beryllium Oxide Reactor (EBOR)
33:44 Idaho Chemical Processing Plant (ICPP)
35:28 Liquid waste disposal
36:23 Waste Calcining Facility (WCF)
37:42 Experimental Breeder Reactors (EBR-I and EBR-II)
41:43 Thorium
42:15 Summary of challenges
42:46 Fuel Cycle Facility (FCF)
43:50 Bridge to fusion

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