Arco/BORAX Mobile Substation [19]

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Title Arco/BORAX Mobile Substation [19]
Photo Number P0206add2n01_15_002
Description Scan of a photo of "Mr. Meyer Novick, Argonne National Laboratory engineer, turns valve to release steam from BORAX reactor into the turbine which drives 3,500 kw. Capacity generator shown at right."
Date 1952; 1953; 1954; 1955
Textual Date circa 1952-1955
Keywords Rocky Mountain Power; Arco; Idaho; Borax; Generator
Subject Electric power transmission-Idaho--Butte County--Photographs; Boiling water reactors--Idaho--Butte County--Photographs; National Reactor Testing Station, Idaho (U.S.)--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/s6dn4wsc
Setname uum_map
ID 985562
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dn4wsc
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