| Title |
Arco/BORAX Mobile Substation [02] |
| Photo Number |
P0206add2n01_13_002 trans |
| Description |
Scan of a transparency of "Mr. Robert S. Patrick, associate electrical engineer, Utah Power and Light Ocmpnay, makes an adjustment to the portable substation used in transforming electricity from Argonne National Laboratory'sBORAX reactor installation to voltage required for transmission to Arco" |
| Date |
1955 |
| Textual Date |
1955 |
| Keywords |
Rocky Mountain Power; Arco; Idaho; Borax; Mobile Substation; Personnel |
| Subject |
Electric substations-Idaho--Butte County--Photographs; Electric power transmission-Idaho--Butte County--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 Perfection V700 Photo scanner, RGB, at 2000dpi. Archival file is uncompressed TIFF. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s64x60h2 |
| Setname |
uum_map |
| ID |
985417 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s64x60h2 |
