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Brief Description of a Nuclear Ship Reactor and Its Operation
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... (Descriptions of these are given in technical manuals covering the Shippingport Atomic Power Station, Shippingport, Pennsylvania, the Army Package Power Reactor at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, the Experimental Boiling Water Reactor at the Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois, and the Vallecitos Boiling Water Reactor, Vallecitos, California.) Design and operation: A nuclear reactor for ship propulsion replaces conventional boilers fired by fossil fuel.


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