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[QUOTE="Delta Force, post: 5922092, member: 612483"] During the early development of nuclear power many utilities were concerned that the United States federal government would create an "Atomic TVA" and crowd them out. As a result the plutonium production reactors in the United States didn't have steam turbines to generate electricity from the heat they generated, in contrast to French and British plutonium production reactors of the era. The one exception to this was the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Reactor]Hanford N-Reactor[/url]. N-Reactor began producing plutonium in 1963 and electricity in 1966, with power production handled by [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Northwest]Washington Public Power Supply System[/url]. N-Reactor was rated at 4,000 MWt and 860 MWe ([url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4684-3710-2_12]source[/url]), which would have made it the most powerful nuclear reactor unit in the United States (if not the world) until the early 1970s. I'm wondering if anyone has any information on how N-Reactor came to be a dual-purpose unit and if it had been designed as one from the outset. Also, were any of the other plutonium production reactors in the United States designed with provision for turbines or otherwise suitable for modification for dual-purpose? [/QUOTE]
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