| Title |
Arco/BORAX Mobile Substation [30] |
| Photo Number |
P0206add2n01_15_013 trans |
| Description |
Scan of a transparency. Caption on another copy of photo: "Mr. Milton Wilkey, Argonne National Laboratory technician, at switch used in synchronizing electricity form 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 1952-1955 |
| Keywords |
Rocky Mountain 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 |
 |
| 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/s63781f4 |
| Setname |
uum_map |
| ID |
985580 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s63781f4 |
