Arco/BORAX Mobile Substation [24]

Scan of a photo of "The machine shop in the building housing the new Experimental Breeder Reactor at the Atomic Energy Commission's National Reactor Testing Station in Idaho is shown lighted by and operated on electric power produced from the heat energy of the reactor. This picture was taken December 22, 1951, during a trail run of the small, experimental and uneconomic power plant of the reactor. The reactor and it's power plant were designed by and are now in charge of the AEC's Argonne National Laboratory, which is located near Chicago. Dr. W. H. Zinn, Director of the Laboratory, who supervised work on the reactor and its equipment, is shown in a white lab jacket. The main purpose of the Experimental Breeder Reactor is to acquire data on the possibility of breeding-the production of more fissionable material in a reactor than the reactor consumes."