page_title: Reactor pressure vessel
hierarchical_section_title: Reactor pressure vessel
caption_attribution_description: Shippingport Atomic Power Station, On Ohio River, 25 miles Northwest of Pittsburgh, Shippingport, Beaver County, PA 87. REACTOR VESSEL CLEAR OF RAILROAD CAR, OCTOBER 10, 1956 HAER PA,4-SHIP,1-87
context_page_description: A reactor pressure vessel in a nuclear power plant is the pressure vessel containing the nuclear reactor coolant, core shroud, and the reactor core.
context_section_description: A reactor pressure vessel (RPV) in a nuclear power plant is the pressure vessel containing the nuclear reactor coolant, core shroud, and the reactor core.
caption: The reactor vessel used in the first US commercial nuclear power plant, the Shippingport Atomic Power Station. Photo from 1956.
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