Editing Army Nuclear Power Program (section)

==Significant accomplishments==

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* Detailed designs for pressurized and boiling water reactors, as well as gas-cooled and liquid-metal cooled reactors.
* First nuclear power plant with a containment structure (SM-1)
* First use of stainless steel for fuel element cladding (SM-1)
* First nuclear power plant in the US to supply electrical power to a commercial grid (SM-1)
* First in-place reactor vessel annealing, using nuclear heat source, in the US (SM-1A)
* First steam generator replacement in US (SM-1A)
* First pressure-suppression containment (SM-1A)
* First operational boiling-water reactor power plant (SL-1)
* First portable, pre-packaged, modular nuclear power plant to be installed, operated, and removed (PM-2A)
* First use of nuclear power for desalinization (PM-3A)
* First land-transportable, mobile nuclear power plant (ML-1)
* First nuclear-powered closed-loop (Brayton) gas turbine cycle (ML-1)
* First floating (barge-mounted) nuclear power plant (MH-1A)