| Title |
Arco/BORAX Mobile Substation [36] |
| Photo Number |
P0206add2n01_15_019 trans |
| Description |
Scan of a transparency of a lit street at Argo, Idaho. Caption from another copy: "Arco, Idaho, located twenty miles from the Atomic Energy Commission's National Reactor Testing Station, is shown above lighted by electricity produced by Argonne National Laboratory's Borax reactor installation. " |
| Date |
1955 |
| Textual Date |
circa 1955 |
| Keywords |
Rocky Mountain Power; Arco; Borax; Idaho |
| Subject |
Arco (Idaho)--Photographs |
| Spatial Coverage |
Arco (Idaho); Butte County (Idaho) |
| Latitude |
43.634722 |
| Longitude |
-113.301389 |
| Additional Information |
Utah Power & Light Company, with a mobile substation, participated in the early experiments at the National Reactor Testing Station (today the Idaho National Laboratory). On December 20, 1951, the Experimental Breeder Reactor-1 produced the first electricity from a nuclear reaction. On July 17, 1955, the BORAX-III reactor provided electric lighting to the nearby town of Argo--the first community in the world ever to be lit by electricity generated by nuclear power. |
| Collection Number and Name |
P0206 Rocky Mountain Power Company photograph collection |
| Holding Institution |
Multimedia Archives, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Finding Aid |
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv479461 |
| Rights |
 |
| Type |
Image |
| Digitization Specifications |
Digital image produced on Epson Perfection V700 Photo scanner, RGB, at 2000dpi. Archival file is uncompressed TIFF. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6zg7hzf |
| Setname |
uum_map |
| ID |
985581 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zg7hzf |
