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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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The plaque is approximately 18 x 24 inches, made of bronze and secured to a large vertical rock at McMurdo Station, the former site of the PM-3A nuclear power reactor. It is approximately half way up the west side of Observation Hill. The plaque text details achievements of PM-3A, Antarctica's first nuclear power plant. (2010) ATCM XXXIII - M15
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.
During a tour Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission showed News 8 where work stands to reopen the Palisades nuclear plant in Covert Township, including a steam generator which still needs ...
Mapped by USGS from surveys and United States Navy aerial photographs, 1959-67, and Landsat imagery, 1972-73. Named by US-ACAN after Robert E. Dorchuck, United States Navy, nuclear power plant operator with the Naval Nuclear Power Unit at McMurdo Station, summer and winter seasons, OpDFrz, 1965 and 1969. [16]