Moments in NRC History: NS Savannah Nuclear-Powered Merchant Ship -- July 21, 1959
Channel: NRCgov
Date: 2018-07-24

This video is part of the Moments in NRC History Series. Watch 
Watch Historian Tom Wellock in our new Moments in NRC History video talk about the only NRC-licensed reactor that is designated a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. government.  Learn how for eight years it operated with an impressive safety record while delivering cargo and passengers to dozens of often crowded national and international ports. It traveled 450,000 miles, visited 45 foreign and 32 domestic ports, and received 1.4 million visitors on board. The NS Savannah is preserved at Baltimore’s Canton Marine Terminal under the care of volunteers and its owner, the Maritime Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation. Periodically open to visitors, it is today one of the few places where the general public can tour a nuclear powered facility.