Title |
Arco/BORAX Mobile Substation [35] |
Photo Number |
P0206add2n01_15_018 trans |
Description |
Scan of a transparency of the interior of a power plant. Caption on another copy of photo: "Interior view of Argonne National Laboratory's BORAX reactor building at the Atomic Energy Commission's National Reactor Testing Station. Reactor is located in a pit under lower platform; reactor control rod mechanism is located in vertical housing" |
Date |
1950; 1951; 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955 |
Textual Date |
circa 1950-1955 |
Keywords |
Rocky Mountian Power; Arco; Borax; Idaho; Personnel |
Subject |
Boiling water reactors--Butte County--Idaho--Photographs; Argonne National Laboratory-West--Photographs; Idaho National Laboratory--Photographs |
Spatial Coverage |
Idaho National Laboratory; Butte County (Idaho) |
Latitude |
43.51798 |
Longitude |
-113.00946 |
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 |
Collection Name |
Rocky Mountain Power Company |
Rights |
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Type |
Image |
Finding Aid |
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv479461 |
Digitization Specifications |
Digital image produced on Epson Perfection V700 Photo scanner, RGB, at 2000dpi. Archival file is uncompressed TIFF. |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s64752j2 |
Setname |
uum_map |
ID |
985572 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64752j2 |