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on December 18, 1957, the turbine was synchronized with the generator, and Duquesne personnel took over operation of the plant. At 11:10 a.m. on December 23, just eight days before the end of the year, the pressurized-water reactor reached its full net power rating

of 60 megawatts of electricity.

fifteen years to the day after Enrico Fermi had achieved the first nuclear chain reaction in Chicago.