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Description
"In later years, the Portland Company made parts for rotary-welding the insides of pipes for the nuclear power plants along with neutron reactor shells, such as the one shown here. The company also made many types of plastic-forming and extruding machinery for bottles and other plastic products." --Fletcher, David H. "The Portland Company 1846-1982." Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002. 128.
About This Item
- Title: Neutron reactor shell, Portland Company, ca. 1970
- Creation Date: circa 1970
- Subject Date: circa 1970
- Location: Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 35 Folder 35/46
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Power industry--Equipment and supplies
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
- Scientific equipment--Maine--Portland
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
- Nuclear reactors--Maine--Portland
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