Army Nuclear Power Program - ANPP Significant Accomplishments

ANPP Significant Accomplishments

References for this list include the DOE document, the Suid book, and the Briefing Book.

  • Detailed designs for pressurized and boiling water reactors, as well as gas-cooled and liquid-metal cooled reactors.
  • First nuclear power plant with a containment structure (SM-1)
  • First use of stainless steel for fuel element cladding (SM-1)
  • First nuclear power plant in the US to supply electrical power to a commercial grid (SM-1)
  • First in-place reactor vessel annealing, using nuclear heat source, in the US (SM-1A)
  • First steam generator replacement in US (SM-1A)
  • First pressure-suppression containment (SM-1A)
  • First operational boiling-water reactor power plant (SL-1)
  • First portable, pre-packaged, modular nuclear power plant to be installed, operated, and removed (PM-2A)
  • First use of nuclear power for desalinization (PM-3A)
  • First land-transportable, mobile nuclear power plant (ML-1)
  • First nuclear powered closed-loop (Brayton) gas turbine cycle (ML-1)
  • First floating (barge-mounted) nuclear power plant (MH-1A)

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