| Title |
Arco/BORAX Mobile Substation [16] |
| Photo Number |
P0206add2n01_14_014_1 |
| Description |
Scan of a photo of "Mr. Milton Wilkey, Argonne National Laboratory technician, at switch used in synchronizing electricity from the Laboratory's BORAX reactor generator with Utah Power and Light Company's electrical system. After synchronization; the reactor installation was operated on its own power." |
| Date |
1952; 1953; 1954; 1955 |
| Textual Date |
circa 1950-1955 |
| Keywords |
Rocky Mountain Power; Arco; Idaho; Nuclear; Personnel |
| Subject |
Electric substations-Idaho--Butte County--Photographs; Electric power transmission-Idaho--Butte County--Photographs; Boiling water reactors--Idaho--Butte County --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 |
 |
| Type |
Image |
| Finding Aid |
https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv479461 |
| Digitization Specifications |
Digital image produced on Epson Expression 10000 XL scanner, RGB, at 400dpi. Archival file is uncompressed TIFF. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6jd5njj |
| Setname |
uum_map |
| ID |
985561 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jd5njj |
