The Department of Energy nuclear research complex in the high desert of eastern Idaho, established in 1949 as the National Reactor Testing Station. More than fifty reactors have been built on its 890 square mile site, among them the ones that gave the world its first usable electricity from nuclear power and the power plant of the first nuclear submarine, and much of what is known about reactor behavior was learned there.
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Organization Type Founded Year HeadquartersEastern Idaho, United States 1 Connections
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Idaho National Laboratory was the DOE Idaho Site chosen in 2014 for the NRC reviewed Carbon Free Power Project, a small modular reactor plant using NuScale Power's design; UAMPS and NuScale mutually terminated the project in November 2023.
Walter Zinn, Pioneers First director of Argonne National Laboratory; led the Experimental Breeder Reactor I program at the Idaho site.
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In 1949, the federal research facility was established as the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS).
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Various organizations have built more than 50 reactors at what is commonly called 'the Site', including the ones that gave the world its first usable amount of electricity from nuclear power and the power plant for the world's first nuclear submarine.
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