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The bronze Nuclear Power Plant Plaque is about 45 cm × 60 cm (18 in × 24 in) in size, and is secured to a large vertical rock halfway up the west side of Observation Hill, at the former site of the PM-3A nuclear power reactor at McMurdo Station. The inscription details the achievements of Antarctica's first nuclear power plant.
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PM-1 Nuclear Power Plant, a 1962 AEC film; PM-3A at McMurdo, Antarctica, an AEC film; The Story of Camp Century, City Under the Ice, a 1961 AEC film about PM-2A; MH-1A: Floating nuclear power plant, STURGIS: Construction report; Army Nuclear Power Program, 1954–1976 Virtual Exhibit at the US Army Corps of Engineers; Summary of the ANPP.
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McMurdo Sound experiences katabatic winds from the Antarctic polar plateau. McMurdo Sound freezes over with sea ice about 3 metres (9.8 ft) thick during the winter. During the austral summer when the pack ice breaks up, wind and currents may push the ice northward into the Ross Sea, stirring up cold bottom currents that spill into the ocean basins.
Portal:Nuclear technology/Pictures/46 Credit: Federal government of the United States "TRINITY PHOTOGRAPH - Alamogordo, NM - Trinity test , July 16, 1945 - "JUMBO," a 120-ton steel vessel, was designed to contain the explosion of the bomb's high explosive and permit recovery of the active material in case on nuclear failure."
Inside the Holtec Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert Township on Dec. 11, 2024.
Antarctic Development Squadron Six (VXE-6 or ANTARCTIC DEVRON SIX, commonly referred to by its nickname, The Puckered Penguins) was a United States Navy air test and evaluation squadron based at Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California with forward operating bases at Christchurch, New Zealand, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica.